California steps up the fight over gig work

California has stepped up the politically contentious and economically consequential fight over the gig economy.
Last week, California Attorney General Xavier Becerra announced the state, joined by the city attorneys of Los Angeles, San Diego and San Francisco, filed a lawsuit against rideshare companies Lyft and Uber “for misclassifying their drivers as independent contractors in violation of the law.”
Ever since Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Assembly Bill 5, which restricted the conditi