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TWO NEW MISCLASSIFICATION SUITS AGAINST UBER: Uber’s recent $100 million settlement of two misclassification lawsuits in California and Massachusetts didn’t end its legal troubles. On Monday Uber drivers sued the company in Florida and Illinois, once again alleging misclassification. “The lawsuit filed in the U.S. District Court of the Northern District of Illinois goes a step further and tries to recover tips that were ‘earned but stolen by Uber, or were lost due to...

Is Uber treating its independent-contractor drivers too much like employees?
A new national class-action complaint filed Sunday night against Uber in federal court in the Northern District of Illinois hopes to clarify the issue. It mirrors in several ways suits from Massachusetts and California, which were recently settled, with Uber agreeing to payments to drivers in those states that could total $100 million. The new suit, filed on behalf of former Uber driver Lorri Trosper by attorney...

Less than two weeks after Uber settled its California and Massachusetts misclassification lawsuits, other states’ drivers are clamoring to get their own easy payday. The Los Angeles Times reports that new class action worker misclassification lawsuits have been filed in Florida and Illinois. Even though the previous settlement stated the company’s workers were independent contractors, not employees, that hasn’t stopped other greedy plaintiffs from getting in on the...

Fresh off a surprise $100 million settlement in its last class action suit, Uber is facing new charges that it has misclassified its drivers by calling them independent contractors rather than employees.
In a complaint filed Sunday in U.S. District Court in Chicago, Milwaukee-based attorney Brian Mahany has brought a "collective action suit on behalf of all current and former Uber drivers" in the U.S., except for those in California and Massachusetts. Drivers in those states were covered...

Uber Technologies grew to a $60 billion market value by disregarding just about every law, regulation and entrenched special interest standing in its way. But the car service is finally up against a wealthy special interest it probably can’t get around: The class-action bar.
Late last month Uber tentatively agreed to pay as much as $100 million to settle lawsuits covering drivers in California and Massachusetts that were filed by Boston attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan.
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According to an announcement by the company following the settlement, Uber agreed to "provide drivers with more information about their individual rating and how it compares with their peers".
The April 21 settlement, which still must be approved by a San Francisco federal judge, provides for a $100 million payout to drivers in those two states on the basis of how many miles each has driven for Uber.
"Uber tried to piecemeal this and said, 'OK, we'll just settle with California and...

Uber is facing another set of class-action lawsuits from Florida and Illinois. Two more drivers have taken their complaints over their employment status to the court.
The ride-hailing company has not yet settled their driver lawsuits but they recently submitted a proposal for a $100 million settlement in the two previous cases in California and Massachusetts. According to Fortune, the new lawsuits filed in Florida and Illinois claim that the company has violated the Fair Labor Standards...

Uber is facing a class-action lawsuit from American drivers who are seeking to get reimbursement on expenses and classify drivers as employees rather than contractors. The company just settled a similar lawsuit for $100 million, but avoided such a reclassification.
The lawsuit, filed Sunday in the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, seeks to change the classification of Uber drivers from independent contractor to employee and “recover unpaid overtime wages and...

Two weeks after Uber’s $100 million settlement with 385,000 drivers in Massachusetts and California, the ride-hailing service is facing fresh litigation.
On Sunday, a class-action lawsuit on behalf of hundreds of thousands of Uber drivers was filed with an Illinois district court—the scope of which is national. Much like the case settled in April, the newest suit alleges that Uber drivers are misclassified as independent contractors and should, as employees, be reimbursed for...

Uber is not out of the woods yet.
Less than two weeks after striking a high-profile settlement to end cases brought by drivers in Massachusetts and California, Uber Technologies Inc. is already facing new suits as plaintiffs lawyers jockey to advance the interests of drivers left out of the deal.
On Sunday, a Milwaukee plaintiffs lawyer filed a nationwide class action against Uber in Chicago, arguing that the company has failed to pay drivers the minimum wage and overtime in...