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Uber and Lyft drivers were paid up to $100 to protest a bill that could make them employees | Johanna Bhuiyan reports that Uber and Lyft paid drivers $25-$100 dollars — to ‘cover travel, parking, and time’ — in exchange for their attendance at a rally against AB 5, a proposed California law that would make ride-hailing drivers employees and not…
