[ScUberdoo]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/01/3697798/uber-drivers-class-action-granted/

Where do we sign up?

 

[BurgerTiime]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/01/3697798/uber-drivers-class-action-granted/

Where do we sign up?

Yup

 

[Driverish]

Nothing to Lose......let it ride

 

[observer]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/01/3697798/uber-drivers-class-action-granted/

Where do we sign up?

Uberlawsuit.com

 

[UberReallySucks]

I'll attest to that... The straight lined helicopter rides by UBERX 25 miles becomes 17 etc etc ... The million dollars question is why is this APP that is known to be defective, continuously updated - once or twice a week - but never really fixed?

 

[Liquid]

This is a win. Unfortunately, this will take years to meander through the system. Bank your hours, take note of your log in and log out times, your stats, and the stats that don't reflect current updates.

 

[UberReallySucks]

Speaking of issues with the APP, countless times when I drove for UBER, I would get a ping, I would drive for miles to pick up the PAX and once I reach the destination, and switch back to the APP. from the Nav. I would find the whole trip info GONE... It would show as "client cancelled request" on trip history, which is fine and dandy, but no cancellation notification was ever sent, which would have allowed me, the driver to go on my merry way instead of wasting time, energy, and gas to get to a pick up location only to find out there's no one to pick up...

 

[groovyguru]

Think I would rather opt out. Employee tax deductions are not as liberal as io deductions. Not so sure the retroactive hourly income would offset the deductions.

 

[soonsoon]

Think I would rather opt out. Employee tax deductions are not as liberal as io deductions. Not so sure the retroactive hourly income would offset the deductions.

as an employee, Uber would have to reimburse you 57.5 cents a mile. That's just the beginning.

 

[Txchick]

http://thinkprogress.org/economy/2015/09/01/3697798/uber-drivers-class-action-granted/

Where do we sign up?

Class action lawsuit only involves around 15,000 drivers Uber driver class-certification applies to Calif. drivers who joined before June 2014 and not through third party: http://t.co/f8McvJ2OW2

 

[hanging in there]

Class action lawsuit only involves around 15,000 drivers Uber driver class-certification applies to Calif. drivers who joined before June 2014 and not through third party: http://t.co/f8McvJ2OW2

It also said only drivers who opted out of binding arbitration are eligible class members.

 

[Txchick]

It also said only drivers who opted out of binding arbitration are eligible class members.

Yes it does.

 

[observer]

as an employee, Uber would have to reimburse you 57.5 cents a mile. That's just the beginning.

Not necessarily,

Uber would be required to reimburse expenses and the 57.5 IRS allowance would be easiest.

It could be a lesser amount if it fully covers expenses.

 

[chi1cabby]

Analysis: Uber will survive, no matter what courts decide
http://www.sfchronicle.com/business...481531.php?t=32ccbda1cf&cmpid=twitter-premium

"Even if Uber loses this case, it will be free to restructure its relationship with its drivers in such a way that the drivers would actually be bona fide independent contractors," Chen wrote in a 68-page decision.

 

[Don Oldenburg]

These lawsuits over whether drivers are employees or contractors are somewhat pointless, because Uber should be able to rework their business practices to make sure they comply in the future with all rules & regs that keeps us partners indep contractors. Best outcome for us, we'll become member of a class and are owed monies retroactively if we are indeed deemed to have been employees. But bank on Uber changing the rules next day so we no longer will be.

In any case, more interesting, and not yet being litigated afaik: Uber's inability to make their app work. Do you guys experience this, too: often times, especially if the app is run in the background, it will crash. If that happens during a trip, the nav will keep working (so it's an Uber app problem, not a Google Maps one). But the Uber app won't retain your actual trip info. In practice, that leads to those ridiculous straight line trip maps, where Uber just draws a line from starting point to end point, regardless of the (much longer) route you ACTUALLY took. Do you guys have that, too?

Please let me know, because that could be a truly juicy lawsuit, with excellent prospects of scoring us a payday: a known-to-be defective app by Uber (under)ESTIMATING the trip billing, instead of billing for the ACTUAL trip distance. As a class, Uber would owe us $$ millions.

Please check your past trips and see if you, too, were "straight lined" by Uber on some of those. Thanks!

In a previous life I worked for a data entry company as a manager. We developed a work from home model as well as the in house data entry operators. We considered the at home workers to be independent contractors. The head company at some point was sued over this, and the deciding factor -- atleast for this case is INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS Set their own prices, and bid the jobs. If the pay is being set by the company without negotiation then it's an employee and employer relationship. Which if this is applied to UBER -- we are definitely employees. Which means we would only have to pay the employee half of our FIca/SocialSecurity contributions. Where as independent contractors we are required to pay both sides.

I'd welcome being able to bid jobs or be part of the rate negotiation with UBER.. but no doubt there will be those that low ball their prices just like in anything industry... So maybe thats not a good thing either ... LOL

Just my morning ramblings... no coffee yet -- forgive me...

 

[chi1cabby]

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