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Levi Sumagaysay, CalMatters

Levi Sumagaysay covers the California economy for CalMatters with an eye on accountability and equity. She reports on the insurance market, taxes and anything that affects the state’s residents, labor force and economy.

Before joining CalMaters, Levi was a tech and business reporter and editor. She has written and edited stories about the rise of the dot-coms, the booms and busts of Silicon Valley and technology’s effects on everything, including the news media. She now works in a hybrid remote newsroom for an online publication, but previously worked in newsrooms with printing presses, paste-up artists, pica poles, pneumatic tubes and unforgettable personalities. She worked at a Seattle newspaper that had only one internet-connected computer.

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A group of California Gig Workers wearing black T-shirts with the organization's logo on it stand in front of a courthouse carrying signs about Prop 22 and raising their hands in the air.
California Supreme Court Appears Hesitant To Overrule Voters on Gig Worker Law
Proposition 22, the gig industry-backed initiative that 58% of state voters passed in 2020, was ruled unconstitutional by a Superior Court judge before being upheld by a state appeals court. Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart and other companies have used the law to treat their drivers and delivery workers in California as independent contractors, not as employees. Now, the whole law could be thrown out by the California Supreme Court because of a clause in the initiative declaring gig workers independent contractors not eligible for workers' comp.
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