Uber and Lyft are facing a new round of legal pressure in their home state of California over how they classify their workers.
California's Labor Commissioner's Office said Wednesday that it filed lawsuits against the two companies for allegedly committing wage theft by misclassifying their on-demand workers as independent contractors instead of employees.
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