Uber Settles Claims of Sexual Assault by Drivers November 4, 2016 By Joel Rosenblat Uber Technologies Inc. settled a lawsuit filed by two women who sought to hold the company responsible for alleged sexual...
Uber Settlement Doesn’t Settle Gig Economy’s Independent Contractor vs. Employee Dispute April 22, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt Uber Technologies Inc. resolved the biggest threat to its business by settling with California drivers suing to be treated more...
Uber Drivers’ Class Action Raises Worker Classification, Arbitration, Liability Issues November 24, 2015 By Joel Rosenblatt Fifty seven and a half cents for every mile logged. That’s the latest demand from Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in...
Uber Driver Case Tests ‘Sharing Economy’ Business Model August 4, 2015 By Eric Newcomer and Joel Rosenblatt The most serious challenge to Uber Technologies Inc.’s “Be your own Boss” business model might also present an early test...
New Worker Classification Needed for Sharing Economy, Uber Drivers June 24, 2015 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion This question of whether an Uber driver is an employee doesn’t matter just to Uber. As you may have heard,...
How Ruling That Drivers Are Employees Upends Uber Business Model June 19, 2015 By Megan McArdle, Bloomberg View If you’re a freelance writer who occasionally sells articles to a website, are you actually an employee? If you live...
Data Breach Lawsuit Latest Legal Challenge for Uber March 16, 2015 Uber Technologies Inc. has been hit with a proposed class action lawsuit over a recently disclosed data breach involving the...
Juries to Decide If Uber, Lyft Drivers Are Independent Contractors March 12, 2015 By Pamela MacLean Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. lost an early round of a fight with drivers in lawsuits that could upend...
Google Targeted in Independent Contractor Classification Dispute November 17, 2014 By Dan Levine Google was sued last week by a worker who claimed the company did not pay overtime, improperly classified him as...