Sep 15, 2019 | Uber news
California is on the verge of passing a bill that would reclassify all “gig economy” workers—those who drive for Uber or Lyft, for example—as employees rather than contractors. Ride-sharing companies have responded by offering to pay drivers a minimum...
Sep 14, 2019 | Uber news
After the better part of year, California’s Senate today passed AB5, legislation that is expected to unravel the contractor business model of companies like Uber, Lyft, and Doordash. In a historic victory, workers for those companies and others like them are now...
Sep 13, 2019 | Uber news
Uber has laid off 435 employees across its product and engineering teams, the company announced today. Combined, the layoffs represent about 8% of the organizations, with 170 people leaving the product team and 265 people leaving the engineering team. The layoffs had...
Sep 13, 2019 | Uber news
Uber has said it has no plans to reclassify its vast army of drivers as employees, in light of the the gig workers’ rights bill passed in the California Senate yesterday. “We continue to believe drivers are properly classified as independent, and because we’ll...
Sep 7, 2019 | Uber news
“Gig economy” tech companies that rely on armies of “independent contractors” are panicked at a bill being considered in California that could force them to classify their workers as actual employees. Now, they’re busily enlisting their own workers to lobby...
Sep 6, 2019 | Uber news
Copyright © 2019 Albuquerque JournalThe case against an Uber driver accused of fatally shooting his passenger while parked on the side of Interstate 25 is moving forward on a count of voluntary manslaughter, a judge ruled Monday.After a daylong preliminary hearing,...
Sep 5, 2019 | Uber news
Uber and Lyft have plenty of problems between them–not the least of which is that neither company seems to be able to make money. That’s ironic, especially in light of the fact that an investigative report from Jalopnik that says that the companies...
Sep 4, 2019 | Uber news
A fleet of more than 200 Lyft and Uber drivers announced today that they will pile into in 75 cars and drive roughly 600 miles from Los Angeles to Sacramento next week. The caravan will be advocating for the passage of a bill known as AB5 that would vastly improve...
Sep 4, 2019 | Uber news
A Black Uber passenger said his driver assaulted him, called him the n-word in front of his 10-year-old son and nearly crashed the van. “You violated me man, in front of my son, not once but twice – and you almost got us killed,” Anton Harris told Fox 2 News. Harris...
Sep 3, 2019 | Uber news
On the heels of a driver-led protest outside Uber’s San Francisco headquarters, where drivers showed their support for gig worker protections legislation (via Assembly Bill 5) and demanded a union, Uber is circulating a petition urging people to “protect ridesharing...
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