San Francisco’s city attorney has reached a $2.3 million settlement with gig-work company WorkWhile, ending a lawsuit over its classification of workers as independent contractors rather than employees. WorkWhile did not admit wrongdoing.
City Attorney David Chiu’s office sued the company in June 2024, alleging that non-driver workers lost employment benefits and protections because of the classification. Under the settlement, WorkWhile must reclassify its workers as employees and pay them a cumulative $7.2 million by 2029.
The total includes earlier agreements in the two-year case. A December 2024 partial judgment required WorkWhile to pay $1 million to non-driver workers who found hospitality, food-industry and warehouse jobs through its app. In January 2026, the company agreed to pay $4.1 million to a subset of delivery drivers who worked shifts through Sept. 5, 2025.
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