The WorkWhile case is the latest from the San Francisco city attorney's office, which has made a practice of suing gig firms.
“Misclassification remains one of the most insidious types of worker exploitation,” said City Attorney David Chiu, who announced the lawsuit today. “WorkWhile’s practice of misclassification violates labor and employment laws across a shocking number of industries.”
WorkWhile did not respond to a Friday morning request for comment. This article will be updated if and when it does. Instead of providing its workers with legally required worker’s compensation insurance, WorkWhile charges its workers a “Trust & Safety Fee” that amounts to 54 cents per hour for route delivery shifts and 47 cents for other shifts to fund “a substandard insurance-like product,” in the city attorney’s wording.
The WorkWhile lawsuit is the latest one filed by the San Francisco city attorney’s worker protection team, a nascent group established in 2022 to litigate allegations of wage theft, misclassification and other abusive workplace practices.
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