November 30, 2022
Postmates Inc. delivery drivers can't duck arbitration and advance their worker classification fight as a proposed class because they are not engaged in interstate commerce, the First Circuit said.
November 09, 2022
A First Circuit panel on Wednesday was hesitant to accept arguments that Postmates and Grubhub delivery drivers are engaged in interstate commerce and exempted from arbitration simply because they pick up items that were delivered to a store from out of state and take them to their final customers.
October 07, 2022
A group of Postmates couriers told the First Circuit that they, like Amazon last-mile delivery drivers, were engaged in interstate commerce and were exempt from arbitrating claims that they were misclassified as independent contractors.
September 19, 2022
Postmates Inc. urged the First Circuit to uphold a ruling that local delivery drivers are not engaged in interstate commerce and are bound to arbitrate claims they were misclassified as independent contractors.
August 10, 2022
A Massachusetts federal court erroneously ruled that an arbitration exemption didn't apply to three Postmates couriers' misclassification claims and used out-of-circuit cases to reach that conclusion, the workers said Wednesday, urging the First Circuit to reverse the decision.