{"id":162958,"date":"2023-04-14T04:30:49","date_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:30:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/siit.co\/guestposts\/?p=162958"},"modified":"2023-04-14T04:30:49","modified_gmt":"2023-04-14T04:30:49","slug":"washington-uber-and-lyft-drivers-win-paid-family-and-medical-leave","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/siit.co\/guestposts\/washington-uber-and-lyft-drivers-win-paid-family-and-medical-leave\/","title":{"rendered":"Washington Uber and Lyft drivers win paid family and medical leave"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"speakable-summary\">Washington&#8217;s Senate unanimously passed a bill this week that would make the state the first in the nation to grant ride-hail drivers the right to paid family and medical leave.<\/p>\n<p>The bill, <a href=\"https:\/\/app.leg.wa.gov\/billsummary?BillNumber=1570&amp;Year=2023&amp;Initiative=false\">HB 1570<\/a>, builds on driver rights won in 2022&#8217;s Expand Fairness Act, which set a high statewide wage floor for drivers and established a right to protections against unjustified deactivation, worker&#8217;s compensation insurance and paid sick time.<\/p>\n<p>The win in Washington comes a month after drivers in California were dealt a blow when the state<a href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/03\/13\/california-court-upholds-prop-22-in-win-for-uber-lyft-doordash\/\">\u00a0upheld Proposition 22<\/a>, the ballot measure passed in November 2020 that classified Uber and Lyft drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. A lower court had previously ruled Prop 22 unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p>Washington&#8217;s ruling could have ripple effects in other states fighting to grant gig workers employment benefits.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Today is a landmark in the fight for worker rights nationwide&#8221; said Peter Kuel, president of Drivers Union, an association of ride-hail drivers, in a statement. Kuel started driving for <span class=\"il\">Uber<\/span> and Lyft in 2014. &#8220;In the State of Washington, drivers must no longer choose between caring for unwell loved ones and putting food on the table. This victory is a demonstration of what drivers can achieve when they organize together to fight for the rights that every worker deserves.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The bill will head to Governor Jay Inslee&#8217;s desk to be signed into law.\u00a0Access to the program is expected to come online for drivers in July 2024. It&#8217;ll grant ride-hail drivers access to the same program as other workers in the state, which offers up to 12 weeks of paid leave if a serious health condition prevents them from working or if they need to take time off to care for a family member or a new child.<\/p>\n<p>The cost of a driver&#8217;s premiums for the program will be fully paid by the app-based companies, like Uber and Lyft, for which the driver works, according to the union.\u00a0 It&#8217;s not clear how the ride-hail companies intend to fund the program or whether they&#8217;ll increase rider fares in Washington to compensate.<\/p>\n<div class=\"piano-inline-promo\"><\/div>\n<p>Washington has more than 30,000 Uber and Lyft drivers, most of whom are immigrants and people of color, according to a <a href=\"https:\/\/irle.berkeley.edu\/files\/2020\/07\/Parrott-Reich-Seattle-Report_July-2020.pdf\">2022 study<\/a>. The report also found that about a third of drivers and their families rely on food stamps in King County, with a quarter living in federal poverty.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This is another historic win for drivers in Washington state and is a continuation of the progress made last year with the passage of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lyft.com\/blog\/posts\/how-lyft-is-helping-drivers-secure-the-future-of-work-in-washington-state\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.lyft.com\/blog\/posts\/how-lyft-is-helping-drivers-secure-the-future-of-work-in-washington-state&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1681530131256000&amp;usg=AOvVaw02B9kQw_Lm__LeDYoBzMiu\">HB 2076<\/a>, first-in-the-nation legislation to provide drivers in Washington with numerous benefits,&#8221; said Lyft in a statement. &#8220;HB 1570 would add paid family medical leave and unemployment insurance benefits to that list. These new benefits and protections are the result of legislators, app-based companies, and labor organizations listening to drivers and working together.<\/p>\n<p>Uber did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/2023\/04\/13\/washington-uber-and-lyft-drivers-win-paid-family-and-medical-leave\/\">Washington Uber and Lyft drivers win paid family and medical leave<\/a> by <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\/author\/rebecca-bellan\/\">Rebecca Bellan<\/a> originally published on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/techcrunch.com\">TechCrunch<\/a><\/p>\n<p>from TechCrunch https:\/\/ift.tt\/Z3OvGzJ<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington&#8217;s Senate unanimously passed a bill this week that would make the state the first in the nation to grant ride-hail drivers the right to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[332844,332843],"tags":[13408],"class_list":["post-162958","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-usa-news","category-technews","tag-technology-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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