Uber calls them independent contractors, but a group of its drivers in the Boston-area say they are really employees who deserve to make, at the very least, the Massachusetts minimum wage, along with getting overtime and sick leave.

In a lawsuit filed in US District Court on Monday, 80 local Uber drivers say they fit the legal definition of "employees" set by Massachusetts law: They are at Uber's beck and call, they have to do everything exactly as the company wants to keep getting rides, they are not performing work outside "the usual course of the hiring entity’s business" and they are not promoting "their independent business separate from working for an employer." The complaint adds: