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The Uber/Lyft “Workers’ Association” Debate

Jun 19, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

Over at Law and Political Economy, Veena Dubal writes an important piece that raises concerns about Uber and Lyft’s suggestion that drivers in California form a “workers’ association.” Dubal worries that such an association would amount to a company union that would “necessarily impede” the development of fully independent, exclusive-representative unions at the gig firms. Given […]

June 13, 2019
News & Commentary

Annie Hollister

Nevada has enacted a slew of new laws aimed at protecting workers. Yesterday, Governor Steve Sisolak signed a measure allowing state employees to engage in collective bargaining. Although the state will retain final say on some key bargaining subjects – including salaries – the law extends collective bargaining rights to more than 20,000 public employees. […]

June 6, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In the ongoing case of Chamber of Commerce v. City of Seattle dealing with the legality of Seattle’s for-hire vehicle driver collective bargaining ordinance, the Chamber and co-plaintiffs moved for summary judgment in February, arguing that the ordinance is preempted by federal antitrust law. The City of Seattle and co-defendants then sought discovery to gather […]

May 8, 2019
News & Commentary

Bibeka Shrestha

The biggest internationally coordinated strike by Lyft and Uber drivers is expected to take place today in major U.S. cities and in the United Kingdom, Australia, and South America. Driver demands vary by organizing group, but include calls for livable incomes, job security, and regulated fares. A study recently released by the Economic Policy Institute […]

Law and Politics in Employee Classification

Apr 30, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

As has been widely reported, the U.S. Department of Labor issued an “opinion letter” yesterday concluding that an unnamed “virtual marketplace company” does not employ the workers who make the company viable. Instead, the letter finds that these workers are independent contractors. The letter is flawed in multiple ways. As Sharon will explain, deciding a […]

Uber’s $100b IPO

Apr 12, 2019 Benjamin Sachs

David Streitfeld has a great story in the NYT this morning about life as an Uber driver and the vast distance between what drivers earn and what investors will reap from the firm’s public offering. Drivers: $40,000 in a good year of full time work. Investors: numbers that end in “million” and “billion.” Travis Kalanick himself made […]

March 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Marissa Marandola

The Maryland General Assembly overrode Republican Governor Larry Hogan’s veto of an increase in the state’s hourly minimum wage from $10.10 to $15 by 2025 for businesses with 15 or more employees and by 2026 for smaller employers. As OnLabor previously reported, Hogan’s veto was expected and followed a House and Senate committee reconciliation process that set […]

March 28, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

This week the National Employment Law Project released a report detailing how gig companies like Uber and Handy have led a state-by-state lobbying effort with corporate partners to strip gig workers of the legal protections afforded to employees. The report explains that in 2018 alone, the companies’ coordinated campaign resulted in the introduction of bills […]

March 24, 2019
News & Commentary

Jenny Braun

Uber and Lyft drivers plan to strike Monday, refusing to drive in protest of impending pay docks. The Los Angeles Times reports on the drivers’ rising ire and on their recent organizing efforts. Protest organizers/leaders have expressed that pay may be the right concern to galvanize and unify drivers who have been, generally, less concerned […]

The Legal Challenge to NYC’s Minimum Payments Law: Do Lyft and Juno Have a Point?

Feb 7, 2019 Sanjukta Paul

New York City’s new minimum payments rule for drivers in the ride-hailing sector is sorely needed, and is in many ways a policy model for cities around the country. The City ought to perfect this path-breaking policy by ensuring that it does not advantage dominant firms—currently, Uber—and handicap non-dominant firms, a result that will not […]

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