She was verbally abused, threatened and stranded by drivers. Now Lisa Irving’s attorneys believe an arbitrator’s $1.1 million award is the largest ever for disability discrimination against a single blind complainant.
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Hundreds of yellow-and-black taxi cabs disrupted traffic in Barcelona on Thursday to protest the return of the ride-hailing giant Uber to the northeastern Spanish city after a 2-year hiatus.
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A federal court in Washington denied Uber’s motion to dismiss claims that the company discriminates against disabled individuals because its wheelchair accessible services are less reliable, have higher fares and longer wait times than its non-wheelchair accessible rides. The court ruled the Equal Rights Center has associational standing to bring the complaint on behalf of its members and has plausibly stated discrimination claims.
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A federal court in California dismissed, with leave to amend, a putative class action against Uber alleging it discriminates against minority drivers with its customer ratings system.
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Uber drivers in Britain should be classed as “workers” and not self-employed, the U.K. Supreme Court ruled Friday, in a decision that threatens the company’s business model and holds broader implications for the so-called gig economy.
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Having had no luck with the California Supreme Court, the union fighting to overturn Proposition 22 — the voter-approved initiative that keeps Uber, Lyft and other gig-economy drivers as independent contractors — has filed a petition to overturn the measure in a lower state court.
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Nearly 60% of California voters backed Proposition 22, which exempts gig economy giants from having to make their workers full-fledged employees, at the ballot box in November. A labor union and four drivers want the initiative struck down.
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If people can just hail a ride from a five-star Lyft or Uber driver at a moment’s notice, will they even bother owning cars? According to research published in the journal iScience on Wednesday, the answer is yes: vehicle ownership actually increased across cities alongside the arrival of ride-hail services.
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A group of Boston taxi operators found some passing room Monday trying to persuade the First Circuit that Uber had illegally competed with them by running an unlicensed cab company.
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An expensive gamble by app-based gig companies paid off big time in California with the approval of a ballot measure that exempts firms like Uber and Lyft from a state labor law and lets them classify workers as independent contractors.
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A judge will not compel Uber to inform drivers of their voting rights vis-à-vis Proposition 22, a California ballot initiative that if passed would exempt the company from treating drivers as employees under California law.
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A group of Uber drivers claim they are being subjected to a “constant barrage” of in-app messages urging them to support Proposition 22, a California ballot measure to exempt Uber and other rideshare and delivery companies from having to classify gig workers as employees.
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Arguing before a state appeals court Tuesday, Uber and Lyft lawyers predicted fewer rides for consumers, lower earnings for drivers and a spike in drunk-driving accidents if they are forced to classify California drivers as employees instead of contractors.
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Uber on Monday won a London court appeal, allowing the US ride-hailing giant to operate in the British capital for the next 18 months, after a judge ruled it was a “fit and proper” firm despite safety concerns.
Read moreA class claims Uber placed its Jump scooters in cities around the nation but did not equip them with a turn signal — a dangerous problem when users attempting to use hand signals drive the scooters with one hand.
Read moreThe Ninth Circuit ruled against an Uber driver who claimed he fell within an exemption in the Federal Arbitration Act because he drives passengers who are engaged in interstate travel. The driver must arbitrate his class action, which claims Uber failed to safeguard the personal data of drivers and riders.
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Uber on Wednesday said it was seeking an urgent meeting with Hong Kong’s government after drivers working for the company lost a landmark court case that could cripple ride-sharing apps in the finance hub.
Read moreTwo individuals who sued Uber for not providing a wheelchair-accessible ride-sharing option in New Orleans have Article III standing to pursue their case and are not subject to an arbitration clause in the app’s terms and conditions, the Ninth Circuit ruled. Uber claimed the plaintiffs consciously avoided downloading the app and signing its terms and conditions but downloading the app and creating an account would have been a “futile gesture” for them.
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Uber’s former head of security Joseph Sullivan was charged Thursday with trying to cover-up a 2016 data breach that exposed 57 million drivers’ and passengers’ personal information.
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SAN FRANCISCO (CN) — A state appeals court granted an eleventh-hour stay Thursday to delay enforcement of an injunction that
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