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UBER national lawsuit? After settling the Uber driver lawsuits in California and Massachusetts, the company is up against its greatest legal challenge yet – a high profile activist driver with a billion dollar lawyer known for holding mega corporations accountable.
UBER is arguably the gig economy's biggest financial success. In mid-2015, it was valued at $50 billion. By January 2016, the last round of investments reportedly brought it up to $62.5 billion. The transportation giant...

The Detroit teachers’ sickout has shut down almost all of Detroit’s public schools. As the New York Times explains, this is not the first major sickout of the year, but it is the “first sanctioned and organized by their union, the 2,600-member Detroit Federation of Teachers,” signaling the rising severity of the crisis in Detroit Public Schools.
Politico reports that two new misclassification suits have been filed against Uber: one in Florida and one in Illinois. ...

In the wake of ride-sharing company Uber’s settlement of class action lawsuits in California and Massachusetts over the company’s classification of drivers as contractors, rather than employees, another class action has been brought in Chicago federal court demanding Uber’s drivers be treated as employees, with the associated rights and benefits, under federal labor laws.
The action is one of two such class actions pending in the U.S. District Court for the Northern...

Just as Uber settled a pair of class action suits with its drivers in Massachusetts and California, here comes another one. This time the suit is aiming to collect all U.S. Uber drivers who aren’t in one of those two states and challenge the contract driver aspect of the company’s business strategy.
Law suits have been springing up for a number of years now, though many have been filed by taxi business owners to try and sideline a dangerous competitor. Nothing has come of...

TWO NEW MISCLASSIFICATION SUITS AGAINST UBER: Uber’s recent $100 million settlement of two misclassification lawsuits in California and Massachusetts didn’t end its legal troubles. On Monday Uber drivers sued the company in Florida and Illinois, once again alleging misclassification. “The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois goes a step further and tries to recover tips that were ‘earned but stolen by Uber, or were lost due to...

Is Uber treating its independent-contractor drivers too much like employees?
A new national class-action complaint filed Sunday night against Uber in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois hopes to clarify the issue. It mirrors in several ways suits from Massachusetts and California, which were recently settled, with Uber agreeing to payments to drivers in those states that could total $100 million. The new suit, filed on behalf of former Uber driver Lorri Trosper by attorney...

Less than two weeks after Uber settled its California and Massachusetts misclassification lawsuits, other states’ drivers are clamoring to get their own easy payday. The Los Angeles Times reports that new class action worker misclassification lawsuits have been filed in Florida and Illinois. Even though the previous settlement stated the company’s workers were independent contractors, not employees, that hasn’t stopped other greedy plaintiffs from getting in on the...

Fresh off a surprise $100 million settlement in its last class action suit, Uber is facing new charges that it has misclassified its drivers by calling them independent contractors rather than employees.
In a complaint filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, Milwaukee-based attorney Brian Mahany has brought a "collective action suit on behalf of all current and former Uber drivers" in the U.S., except for those in California and Massachusetts. Drivers in those states were covered...

Uber Technologies grew to a $60 billion market value by disregarding just about every law, regulation and entrenched special interest standing in its way. But the car service is finally up against a wealthy special interest it probably can’t get around: The class-action bar.
Late last month Uber tentatively agreed to pay as much as $100 million to settle lawsuits covering drivers in California and Massachusetts that were filed by Boston attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan.
Yesterday...

According to an announcement by the company following the settlement, Uber agreed to "provide drivers with more information about their individual rating and how it compares with their peers".
The April 21 settlement, which still must be approved by a San Francisco federal judge, provides for a $100 million payout to drivers in those two states on the basis of how many miles each has driven for Uber.
"Uber tried to piecemeal this and said, 'OK, we'll just settle with California and...