Making ride-hailing drivers employees under California’s wage-and-hour laws would be akin to “trying to fit a square peg into a round hole,” the head of Arnold & Porter Kaye Scholer’s labor and employment group said Monday.

David Reis, speaking to reporters on a call organized by opponents of a bill to codify parts of the California Supreme Court’s 2018 ruling in Dynamex, said the state’s hours-based work statutes don’t mesh with the flexibility that Lyft and Uber say their drivers want.