February 02, 2017
Uber Technologies Inc. and a group of its drivers that demanded to be classified as employees agreed Wednesday to drop a suit after a federal judge had refused to stay the class action in January, as the sides sought to await a possible U.S. Supreme Court ruling on whether the National Labor Relations Act precludes enforcement of class action waivers in mandatory arbitration agreements.
January 20, 2017
A federal judge in New York on Friday refused to stay a class action suit by Uber drivers demanding to be classified as employees, saying that it would take too long for the Supreme Court to decide whether the National Labor Relations Act precludes enforcement of class action waivers in mandatory arbitration agreements.