Lawsuit Alleges Uber Uses ‘Biased’ Rider Ratings to Fire Drivers October 27, 2020 By Josh Eidelson Uber Technologies Inc. was accused in a lawsuit of violating the U.S. Civil Rights Act by firing minority drivers based...
Not All Workers Have Same Options for Avoiding Virus March 13, 2020 By Kelvin Chan and Mae Anderson A barber in Beijing is supporting his wife and child by charging food and other expenses to a credit card...
Lawsuit Alleges Uber ‘Cheats’ Public by Avoiding Worker Insurance Payments, Taxes November 21, 2019 By Joel Rosenblat Uber Technologies Inc. faces a new legal attack on its refusal to treat drivers as employees that depicts the company...
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,...
Decision in Uber Employee vs. Contractor Suit Cuts Driver Bargaining Power September 25, 2018 By Don Jergler Uber drivers seeking pay and benefits like those employees get were handed a big defeat by the 9th Circuit Court...
IBM Being Sued for Age Discrimination September 21, 2018 By Gerrit De Vynck Shannon Liss-Riordan has been compared to “a pit bull with a Chihuahua in its mouth.” In a career spanning almost...
National Labor Board Urges Court to Block Uber Arbitration Agreement November 3, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt The U.S. labor-protection watchdog is taking sides with Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in their fight to be treated better than...
Appeals Court Grants Uber Pro-Arbitration Ruling, Thwarting Drivers’ Class Action September 7, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt and Patricia Hurtado Uber Technologies Inc.’s arbitration agreements were largely ruled by an appeals court to be valid and enforceable in a blow...
Judge Nixes $100M Driver Settlement But Uber May Win in End August 19, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt Uber Technologies Inc. may come out ahead by failing to win court approval of a $100 million settlement with drivers....
Uber Insists If Arbitration Pact Is Nixed, $100M Driver Settlement Is Dead August 1, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt Uber Technologies Inc.’s message to the judge who must approve its $100 million settlement with drivers is clear: take it...