In 2020, Proposition 22 was proposed with the intention of improving worker conditions while keeping rides & deliveries cheap and abundant for consumers. But a new report suggests that rideshare drivers in California have instead seen their wages decline.
, though the gig companies say they still follow it while the legal process continues. More than 1.3 million Californians work for app-based platforms, according to the Protect App Based Drivers and Services Coalition, which is funded by gig companies.
“Labor law is ambiguous in a lot of ways, and allows platforms to do what they want until someone pushes back,” says Brian Justie, a researcher with the UCLA Labor Center who has studied app-based workers. “Prop 22 was an attempt to codify drivers’ working conditions in a way that was favorable to the companies.”
The report published Wednesday suggests California rideshare drivers are worse off now than they were before the law passed, under the state's previous gig economy law, though the pandemic and high gas prices have contributed to their distress. It appears to be the first study to use data collected without cooperation of rideshare companies to evaluate driver wages since Proposition 22 went into effect last year.
Historically, Uber and Lyft have shared data with only a select few researchers and have mostly kept data on trip locations and driver pay and expenses to themselves, saying it is proprietary. “We had a lot of challenges in collecting good data,” says Eliza McCullough, an associate with PolicyLink and a coauthor of the report.
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