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The Department of Labor's Proposed Rule Would Effectively Guarantee a Raise for Uber and Lyft Drivers
The federal minimum wage has been stuck at a pathetically low $7.25 an hour for well over a decade, though many states have set their own minimum considerably higher. A proposed rule released today by the Department of Labor would effectively guarantee a raise for thousands of Uber and Lyft drivers in California who are mislabeled as independent contractors. The changes would take place because the new rule would establish more real-world standards for what constitutes employment.