S.F. wins $1M settlement against gig firm WorkWhile
The San Francisco city attorney’s office announced today that it has reached a settlement agreement with gig staffing company WorkWhile, the second worker classification victory this year from the city’s newly-formed Worker Protection Team. WorkWhile, a San Francisco-based gig company that connects workers with temp work, will pay $1 million to thousands of workers the city claimed were being denied rights and benefits. It will also permanently reclassify all its current and future workers, except delivery workers, as employees rather than independent contractors. The judgment came on Dec. 10 — about 10 months after San Francisco secured the country’s first injunction to require a gig company, in that case Qwick, to permanently reclassify its workers.WorkWhile has grown rapidly since its launch in 2020, with half a million workers now operating across 27 states, according to the city attorney’s office. Its workers are […]
