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Gig News: Liss-Riordan Statement on Revised Lyft Settlement

May 11, 2016 Jon Weinberg

As Reuters reports, Lyft has agreed to a revised $27 million settlement in the California class-action lawsuit Cotter v. Lyft after a previous proposed $12.25 million settlement was rejected by Judge Vince Chhabria. Shannon Liss-Riordan and Matthew D. Carlson, the attorneys who brought the case on behalf of drivers, have provided OnLabor with the following statement regarding the revised settlement:

Liss-Riordan Statement on Lyft Settlement

Jan 29, 2016 Benjamin Sachs

As we’ve covered, Lyft has agreed to settle the class-action lawsuit brought by Shannon Liss-Riordan and Matthew Carlson on behalf of California drivers. The attorneys’ statement regarding the settlement is worth reading – both because it provides important details about the settlement agreement, and because it offers insight into the thinking behind the agreement. The complete statement, provided to OnLabor […]

December 22, 2022
News & Commentary

Anita Alem

New York becomes the fourth state to mandate "pay transparency"; Biden’s Senate nominees for the EEOC and DOL are blocked for the year; Crumbl cookies violated child labor regulations; 100 demands for arbitration have been filed against Twitter. Internationally, in the U.K, tens of thousands of workers have gone on strike amid a cost of living crisis; workers in Iran continue to have an outsize role in the ongoing uprising.

August 20, 2020
News & Commentary

Maxwell Ulin

Approximately 1.1 million Americans filed for unemployment within the last week, a marked increase from the start of August. The new numbers come amidst a legislative stalemate between House Democratic lawmakers and the President over an extension of booster unemployment benefits, previously set at a flat rate of $600 per week. Many Republicans object that […]

October 22, 2019
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Vail Kohnert-Yount

Accounting giant Ernst & Young is under fire for a seminar it held for women executives at the height of the #MeToo movement in June 2018. A 55-page presentation used during the day-and-a-half training on women’s “leadership and empowerment” was leaked to the Huffington Post, which revealed the curriculum was full of sexist stereotypes. One […]

Weekend News & Commentary — February 10-11, 2018

Feb 11, 2018 Suzanne Schlossberg

Jon Steingart at Bloomberg Law details how the GrubHub litigation could find new legs at the trial court level. Magistrate Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California held on Feb. 8 that former GrubHub delivery driver Raef Lawson was not an employee as Lawson had contended. Judge Coreley […]

Gig News: More Details Emerge about Amazon Flex

Nov 17, 2017 Adi Kamdar

Over the last couple decades, Amazon has built out an extensive shopping service, making it second nature to order an item and expect it on your doorstep in a couple days. But how many customers know that their deliveries are arriving courtesy of a controversial, Uber-like program called Amazon Flex? When news of Amazon Flex […]

Gig News: NLJ Update on Gig Economy Legislation and Lawsuits

May 2, 2017 Jon Weinberg

Last week, The National Law Journal published an update on state legislation and lawsuits regarding the classification of gig economy workers as independent contractors. First, the article noted that the Florida Legislature has passed a bill, expected to be signed into law by Governor Rick Scott, “that classifies drivers for companies such as Uber and Lyft as […]

Gig News: In First Uber Classification Arbitration, Driver Ruled Independent Contractor

Jan 12, 2017 Jon Weinberg

The Recorder reports that Uber has “successfully persuaded a private arbitrator that a California driver for the transportation company is an independent contractor, not an employee, in the first arbitration in the United States to test that issue.” While drivers continue to challenge Uber’s mandatory arbitration agreements in court, the arbitrator’s decision represents the outcome […]

October 10, 2016
News & Commentary

Emily Miller

The Boston Globe reported Friday on a claim filed with the EEOC by Shannon Liss-Riordan, the attorney behind the Uber lawsuit, that alleges that Uber’s rating system is racially discriminatory. Uber has argued that it should not allow passengers to tip drivers because it could incorporate customer bias into driver’s pay, with a result that […]

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Gig News: Liss-Riordan Statement on Revised Lyft Settlement

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Weekend News & Commentary — February 10-11, 2018

Gig News: More Details Emerge about Amazon Flex

Gig News: NLJ Update on Gig Economy Legislation and Lawsuits

Gig News: In First Uber Classification Arbitration, Driver Ruled Independent Contractor

October 10, 2016