As It Prepares IPO, Uber Settles Driver Classification Disputes for $20 Million March 13, 2019 By Joel Rosenblatt Uber Technologies Inc. will pay $20 million to settle California lawsuits challenging the company’s classification of drivers as independent contractors,...
With Growth of the Gig Economy, States Rethink How Workers Get Benefits February 23, 2017 By Sophie Quinton As more and more Americans hold nontraditional jobs that don’t have benefits attached — think freelance graphic designers or Uber...
How Gig Economy Is Using Private Arbitration to Win on Labor Classification June 6, 2016 By Joel Rosenblat Sharing economy workers’ best shot at suing to rewrite the rules of their employment may soon pass them by. As...
Judge Questions Lyft’s Revised Pay Deal with California Drivers June 3, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt Lyft Inc. may have more work to do to win court approval of a settlement with 163,000 California drivers who...
Lyft Raises Offer to Drivers to $27M in Contractors V. Employees Suit May 12, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt and Pamela MacLean Lyft Inc. raised its proposed payout to 163,000 California drivers to $27 million in their lawsuit to be treated as...
Warming to Alternative Classifications for Gig Economy Workers December 10, 2015 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion Judges and juries around the country are being asked to decide whether Uber and Lyft drivers and other participants in...
Unlike Uber, On-Demand Office Service Cleans Up with Employees October 16, 2015 By Kyle Chayka It’s scorching on the streets of Midtown Manhattan as Afonso Oliveira strides around the lunch-break crowds, unbent beneath his 45-pound,...
Labor Department’s 6-Part Test for Classifying Employees, Independent Contractors July 16, 2015 The U.S. Department of Labor has issued a blog post with new guidance on classifying workers as employees or independent...