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Uber Drivers Learn that Sometimes the Perfect is the Enemy of the Good

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Courts have an important responsibility to approve class action settlements and ensure that the plaintiffs and their attorneys are not selling out the class by colluding with the defendants. Sometimes, though, in their zealous protection of the absent class members, courts wind up forgetting the old aphorism attributed to Confucius: “Better a diamond with a …

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Uber Drivers Could Gain Thousands in Pay, Benefits as Full-time Employees

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Uber drivers in six major U.S. cities would receive paid holidays and health care benefits worth an average of $5,500 a year, plus thousands more in mileage reimbursement, if the company provided them with the same benefits as its full-time employees, according to a new NerdWallet study. The California Labor Commissioner’s Office ruled in June …

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California Labor Ruling Deals A Blow To Uber’s Strategy For Denying Drivers Benefits

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Uber must pay its drivers benefits, overtime, working expenses, and other standard compensation that the company has thus far avoided providing, the California Labor Commission has ruled. The decision is not self-executing across the state and can only be directly applied in one specific driver’s case. But it signals to the company’s other employees that …

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“But I Signed An Independent Contractor Agreement…”

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The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals Weighs In On Workforce Classification Under California Law Every time I review an independent contractor agreement I find myself humming George and Ira Gershwin’s song, It Ain’t Necessarily So from Porgy and Bess. In California, at least, such agreements do not prove that a worker is an independent contractor. …

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Cheating Workers Out Of Rights, Benefits

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Lawmakers Go After Employers Who Misclassify Workers as Contractors Nearly three years ago, Warren, Ohio, Local 573 Business Manager Mark Catello found out the hard way how rampant is the illegal practice of misclassifying workers as independent contractors to circumvent labor law and cheat on taxes. The local tried organizing cable workers at Baker Communications, …

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Madeline Messa

Madeline Messa is a 3L at Syracuse University College of Law. She graduated from Penn State with a degree in journalism. With her legal research and writing for Workplace Fairness, she strives to equip people with the information they need to be their own best advocate.

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