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New York City’s largest taxi driver advocacy group is hailing a legal decision by the New York State Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board, which ruled last Friday that three out-of-work Uber drivers can be considered employees for the purpose of unemployment benefits. The decision was first reported Thursday by Politico.

In other words, three men—and possibly other “similarly situated” Uber drivers who had quit over low pay or who were deactivated from the Uber platform—can get paid.

“The decision means that New York Uber drivers can file for unemployment insurance and likely receive it,” Veena Dubal, a labor law professor at the University of California Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco, emailed Ars.