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Uber Settles California Employee Classification Lawsuit for $20 Million

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights
According to a March 2019 report by Bloomberg, Uber Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay $20 million to settle claims by workers that they should have been classified as employees and not as independent contractors. Employee classification provides many benefits that independent contractor status does not: Emplo...

Worker Classification Cases Abound and the DOL Responds

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Employment - Class Actions, Wage Violations
Several more cases this week showed how worker (mis)classification remains a hot topic in the California employment law landscape.  One of the cases was settled for $295,000 when a class of trucking company driver managers brought claims that they were misclassified as exempt from overtime employees.  As opposed to m...

Federal Court: Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights, Employment - Class Actions, Wage Violations
After months of speculation, a federal court in Northern California held that drivers for Uber are employees and not independent contractors due to Uber's control over the drivers' schedules, routes, pay, and training. The court was considering whether to certify a class action of thousands of drivers who had signe...

Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors

Posted on by Simon Mikail
Category: Employee Rights
The California Labor Commissioner ruled recently that Uber drivers are employees and not independent contractors of the Uber corporation, in a decision that could shake up the car sharing industry. Defendants Uber Technologies, Inc. and Rasier-CA LLC (collectively, Uber) argued that Plaintiff was an independent contrac...