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How Uber and Lyft drivers can claim their back pay Eligible drivers can file a claim to receive the funds they are owed and notices will be delivered to drivers by mail, email and/or text message.
Separately, Uber and Lyft on Thursday separately agreed to pay a combined $328 million to settle claims by New York Attorney General Letitia James that they systematically cheated drivers out of ...
Uber and Lyft will pay a combined $328 million to settle claims by New York's attorney general that the ride-sharing companies systematically cheated drivers out of pay and benefits. Attorney ...
A January 2018 report by Bloomberg News stated that Uber routinely used a kill switch, codenamed "Ripley", that locked, powered off and changed passwords on staff computers when those offices were subjected to government raids. [26] Uber allegedly used this button at least 24 times, from spring 2015 until late 2016.
Several Uber drivers have claimed to be employees, despite their classification as independent contractors. Some of the drivers sued after California passed a law aimed at requiring gig economy companies to classify workers as employees that took effect January 1, 2020. [13] Likewise, many more workers in the gig economy are making similar claims.
The reporting mentioned Uber personalizing content based on user data and maintain the balance between increasing ad revenue and annoying and turning away customers. It noted that Uber was showing customers one ad per trip and how it tried to implement push alerts before moving away from them given the response from customers. [154]
Workers say in the claims and in interviews with CalMatters, that companies such as Uber, Lyft, and Instacart failed to provide higher wages and health care stipends under the law, and that the ...
Prosecutors claimed that Uber made misleading statements about the background checks it performs on drivers and falsely charged a "safe ride fee." The case was resolved when Uber agreed to no longer claim to be the "safest ride on the road", change the name of the "safe ride fee" to "booking fee", and pay $10 million. [285]