November 23, 2021
New Jersey's chief federal judge ruled Tuesday in a published opinion that a proposed class of Uber drivers must arbitrate their wage and hour claims because they don't fall within a federal arbitration law exemption for transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce.
July 26, 2021
Uber told a New Jersey federal judge Friday that a federal carveout for interstate transportation workers doesn't shield a driver from having to arbitrate his wage and hour claims against the ride-hailing giant, and moreover, that the driver knowingly agreed to Uber's valid arbitration provision.
July 21, 2021
The New Jersey legal industry is poised to receive guidance on arbitration, discovery and litigation time limits as they apply to employment law thanks to cases that advanced during the first half of 2021, including a former state official's whistleblower lawsuit over COVID-19 testing and gender discrimination claims against Fox Rothschild LLP.
June 14, 2021
A former Uber driver has called on a New Jersey federal judge to shoot down the ride-hailing giant's bid to kick his wage and hour class claims out of court and instead declare that the company's drivers are exempt from arbitration under the Federal Arbitration Act as workers engaged in interstate commerce.
April 27, 2021
Uber has told a federal court a New Jersey driver does not fit the definition of a transportation worker engaged in interstate commerce and must face arbitration, saying a precedential Third Circuit ruling in 2019 did not secure him a pathway to pursue his wage-and-hour claims in court.
April 13, 2021
A former Uber driver urged a New Jersey federal court Tuesday to certify a class of Garden State drivers whom the ride-hailing company allegedly misclassified as independent contractors, following a Third Circuit decision vacating an order compelling arbitration.
January 30, 2017
A New Jersey federal judge on Monday sent to arbitration proposed class claims that Uber Technologies Inc. misclassified its drivers as contractors in order to avoid operation expenses and sidestep labor laws, rejecting a driver's argument that the arbitration clause was not prominent enough in an electronic employment agreement.
June 03, 2016
Uber Technologies Inc. attempted Friday to toss one of the latest class actions accusing it of misclassifying drivers as contractors in order to avoid operation expenses and sidestep labor laws, telling a New Jersey federal judge that the suing driver had agreed to arbitrate the disputes instead of hashing them out in the courts.
May 27, 2016
Uber has been hit with yet another suit accusing it of violating its drivers' rights, with the company on Friday removing to New Jersey federal court a putative class action alleging Uber illegally forces its drivers to pay for tolls, gas and phone bills through improper classification.