- Safeguard the choice and voter-approved rights of app-based drivers to remain independent contractors.
- Support policies that protect and expand driver independence and flexibility.
- Protect driver economic security by ensuring the stability of benefits and protections provided by Prop 22.
- Protect the ability of drivers to expand into new opportunities to earn money.
- Oppose legislation, regulations, local ordinances, and lawsuits that undermine Prop 22, driver independence, or threaten the availability and accessibility of app-based work.
App-based rideshare and delivery drivers overwhelmingly prefer to work as independent contractors with control over when, where and how they work.
California voters protected this right when they passed Proposition 22 in 2020 by nearly 60% – guaranteeing the ability of app-based drivers to continue working as independent contractors while also providing drivers new benefits, including guaranteed earnings and access to healthcare.
Protect App-Based Drivers + Services (PADS) is a grassroots coalition of more than 135,000 drivers and dozens of organizations dedicated to protecting independent, app-based work for drivers and the app-based rideshare and delivery services that millions of Californians rely on.
Our Principles:
Support app-based jobs
Protect app-based services
RESPECT THE WILL OF THE VOTERS
1 SUPPORT APP-BASED JOBS
2 PROTECT APP-BASED SERVICES
- Support policies that safeguard and expand the availability of rideshare and food/grocery delivery services.
- Oppose proposals that would limit access to app-based services, restrain the growth of these services or increase costs.
- Oppose legislation, regulations, local ordinances, and lawsuits that threaten to undermine the successful on-demand app-based rideshare and delivery model upon which millions of drivers, users, restaurants, and merchants rely.
3 RESPECT THE WILL OF THE VOTERS
- PADS will strongly defend Prop 22 in the courts, the Legislature, local governments and with regulators to uphold the will of California voters and the availability of independent app-based jobs and services.