February 25, 2025
High-profile wage and hour cases involving baked goods delivery drivers, ride-hail drivers, airplane fuel pumpers and warehouse workers are now advancing in lower courts after appellate panels ruled on whether the workers are exempt from arbitration. Here, Law360 checks in on these cases.
March 08, 2021
New York City Uber drivers must arbitrate their claims the ride-hailing giant illegally deducted ride-hailing taxes and inflated service fees from their fares after a federal judge in Manhattan ruled Monday that they don't qualify as transportation workers engaged in interstate commerce who'd otherwise be exempt from arbitration.
August 13, 2020
New York City drivers told a federal judge that recent appellate rulings clarifying which transportation workers might be exempt from arbitration supports their efforts to litigate claims that Uber shortchanged drivers' fares by deducting ride-hailing taxes as well as inflated service fees.
July 06, 2020
New York drivers told a federal judge that Uber shouldn't be allowed to wield its arbitration provision to deprive them of their day in court, insisting Uber must face claims it shortchanged drivers' fares by deducting ride-hailing taxes as well as inflated service fees.
May 04, 2020
Uber has told a federal judge that New York City drivers cannot bank on the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for transportation workers to advance their suit alleging Uber shortchanged drivers' fares by deducting ride-hailing taxes as well as inflated service fees.
November 07, 2019
More than 96,000 New York drivers are banking on the Federal Arbitration Act's exemption for transportation workers to advance a new suit alleging Uber shortchanged drivers by deducting inflated ride-hailing taxes and service fees from their fares.