June 27, 2017
An Uber driver lost his bid to certify a Fair Labor Standards Act collective action Tuesday, when a Florida federal judge said he'd failed to show there are other similarly situated Uber employees who want to opt in to his wage-and-hour suit.
May 31, 2017
Uber drivers trying to consolidate their cases against the ride-hailing giant over their classifications as independent contractors were dealt a second loss Tuesday by the Judicial Panel on Multidistrict Litigation, which refused to centralize three suits and said voluntary coordination is a better option for these cases than centralization.
August 29, 2016
Uber drivers who opted out of arbitration agreements with the ride-hailing giant filed suit Friday in Miami in an attempt to circumvent the arbitration issue bogging down similar class actions elsewhere and push for a ruling on whether or not the drivers were misclassified as independent contractors.