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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 ...
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 ...
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]
On 5 December 2014, a passenger was assaulted in an Uber cab by its driver in New Delhi. Following this, Uber was temporarily withdrawn and then forced to manage operations through an Indian subsidiary. Uber also ran into disputes with the Reserve Bank of India, the Income Tax department and consumer courts. Following this, a 'kill switch' was ...
A judge declared a mistrial on four other criminal charges after jurors said they could not agree whether Gary Kitchings was guilty.
Last month, a California appeals court upheld a 2020 classification of Uber drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, which means the company does not need to provide drivers with ...
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 ...
The group has its origins in the 2017 strikes by rideshare drivers at Los Angeles' LAX airport. [2] [3] It was also active in the 2019 Lyft and Uber drivers' strikes, [1] [4] [5] and worked to oppose the 2020 California Proposition 22, [6] [7] [8] which passed with more than 58% of the vote. [9] [10]