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Guest Post: The Status of Uber Drivers – Part 2: A Purposive Approach

May 19, 2016 Guy Davidov

Guy Davidov is the Elias Lieberman Professor of Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and currently a visiting scholar at Berkeley Law. This is the second post in a three-part series. In my previous post I advocated purposive interpretation of the term “employee” to set the scope of labour law. This is not […]

Gig News: Named Plaintiff, Others Object to Uber Settlement

May 17, 2016 Jon Weinberg

Caroline O’Donovan reports for Buzzfeed that named plaintiff Douglas O’Connor is among those who have filed objections to the proposed settlement in O’Connor v. Uber, the federal class action challenging the classification of Uber drivers as independent contractors. O’Connor “is removing his name from the landmark class-action suit for which he was a key plaintiff. He is […]

Guest Post: The Status of Uber Drivers – Part 1: Some Preliminary Questions

May 17, 2016 Guy Davidov

Guy Davidov is the Elias Lieberman Professor of Labour Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and currently a visiting scholar at Berkeley Law. This post is the first in a three-part series. The status of Uber drivers – and others who work for on-demand platforms – has been the subject of a heated debate […]

Gig News: Liss-Riordan Statement on Revised Lyft Settlement

May 11, 2016 Jon Weinberg

As Reuters reports, Lyft has agreed to a revised $27 million settlement in the California class-action lawsuit Cotter v. Lyft after a previous proposed $12.25 million settlement was rejected by Judge Vince Chhabria. Shannon Liss-Riordan and Matthew D. Carlson, the attorneys who brought the case on behalf of drivers, have provided OnLabor with the following statement regarding the revised settlement:

Gig News: As Debate Over Uber Settlement Continues, Three Federal Judges Dismiss Similar Suits

May 10, 2016 Jon Weinberg

While debate continues over the proposed settlement in O’Connor v. Uber, three other federal cases (summarized below) were recently dismissed by federal district judges who enforced Uber’s mandatory arbitration clauses. According to the judges in these cases, because Uber’s arbitration clauses delegate questions of arbitrability to an arbitrator and contain satisfactory opt-out and class action […]

Gig News: O'Connor Documents Show Uber Drivers Owed $730 Million if Employees

May 10, 2016 Jon Weinberg

Reuters reports that court documents made public yesterday show Uber drivers covered by the O’Connor class action, namely those who worked for Uber in California and Massachusetts over the past seven years, would be owed an estimated $730 million in expense reimbursements alone if they were found to be employees. Meanwhile, the O’Connor settlement, if […]

Uber, Independent Contractors, and Travis Kalanick’s Price-Fixing Conspiracy

May 5, 2016 Adi Kamdar

If you’ve ever taken an Uber, you probably want to pay attention to this lawsuit. After all, you may make some money off of it. In December 2015, Connecticut native Spencer Meyer, in a putative class action on behalf of all Uber passengers in the U.S., filed an antitrust lawsuit against Travis Kalanick, CEO and […]

Gig News: Uber Settlement Raises Questions on Monetary Payments and Tipping

Apr 27, 2016 Jon Weinberg

The recent settlement announced between Uber and drivers in California and Massachusetts in suits over driver classification (analyzed here) continues to receive extensive coverage. While questions about the “drivers’ association” have been highlighted in recent commentary, controversy has also arisen over the settlement amounts and how the settlement treats the tipping of drivers. Settlement Amounts […]

Teamsters to form its own Uber "Drivers' Association" in Cal.

Apr 22, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

On a day of huge Uber news, there’s another interesting item. According to a Teamsters’ press release, Teamsters Joint Council 7 “notified Uber of their intent to organize California drivers” yesterday – the day before Uber announced its intent to create a drivers’ association (as part of the O’Connor settlement). As the union press release states, “After receiving overwhelming outreach […]

On The Uber Settlement & What's Next For Drivers

Apr 22, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

There are two ways to think about whether a settlement is a good deal from the perspective of the plaintiffs. One is whether, in light of all the facts and law relevant to the particular litigation, plaintiffs’ attorneys got as much for their clients as they could. No one, other than those intimately familiar with […]

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Guest Post: The Status of Uber Drivers – Part 2: A Purposive Approach

Gig News: Named Plaintiff, Others Object to Uber Settlement

Guest Post: The Status of Uber Drivers – Part 1: Some Preliminary Questions

Gig News: Liss-Riordan Statement on Revised Lyft Settlement

Gig News: As Debate Over Uber Settlement Continues, Three Federal Judges Dismiss Similar Suits

Gig News: O'Connor Documents Show Uber Drivers Owed $730 Million if Employees

Uber, Independent Contractors, and Travis Kalanick’s Price-Fixing Conspiracy

Gig News: Uber Settlement Raises Questions on Monetary Payments and Tipping

Teamsters to form its own Uber "Drivers' Association" in Cal.

On The Uber Settlement & What's Next For Drivers