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Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour

Drivers will get sick pay and healthcare stipends, too.

The office says it will release details about who qualifies and how to apply “in coming weeks.” Despite the settlement and the original thrust of the suit, drivers will still be considered independent contractors. Uber and Lyft will also give drivers stipends so they can buy healthcare and sign up for the state’s family and medical leave program, and will cover work-related injuries. The rideshare companies have mostly avoided being regulated this way in California after successfully persuading voters there to pass a 2020 law that exempted businesses from being required to treat gig workers as employees; that’s been windingits waythrough state courts.

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