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In 2020, platform corporations spent over $200 million to convince California voters to approve Proposition 22, a ballot initiative that stripped drivers of employee status and promised them ...
The labor commissioner's office ruled that former Uber driver Barbara Ann Berwick was entitled to receive more than $4,000 in expenses because the company "would not exist" without drivers like her.
Uber said that 90% of their 1.2 million drivers nationwide work less than 40 hours per week, with 80% working less than 20 hours per week, and that if they were required to classify drivers as employees, they would terminate 80% of their drivers because their nationwide business can only support 250,000 full-time jobs. [6] [22] [14]: 1 [21]
California Superior Court Judge Ethan Schulman issued his ruling on August 10, 2020, stating that Uber and Lyft must treat their drivers as employees under AB-5, as their work in the context of the "ABC test" was not outside the usual course of their business, nor was a "multi-sided platform" as Uber and Lyft had argued but simply ...
(Reuters) -A U.S. appeals court on Monday rejected a bid by Uber and subsidiary Postmates to revive a challenge to a California law that could force the companies to treat drivers as employees ...
Clarification: This article was updated Mon. April 10 to clarify Uber's stance on New York City regulators' vote to give Uber drivers a raise in March. This story was originally featured on ...
[75] [76] In September 2016, a group of taxi drivers attacked an Uber driver who was waiting for a passenger at Zagreb Airport. The Uber driver canceled the ride before the passenger arrived and drove away, with the attackers following him. The attack was filmed by the victim and reported to the Law enforcement in Croatia. [77]
AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, and so entitled to greater workers' rights under local labour laws, a Dutch court ruled on Monday, handing a setback to the U.S ...