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A California judge has rejected the nearly $100m settlement deal between Uber and a group of aggrieved drivers.
Judge Edward Chen said on Thursday [PDF] the dial-a-ride app maker's proposed settlement package "as a whole as currently structured is not fair, adequate, and reasonable." The drivers are suing Uber, accusing the San Francisco biz of breaking labor laws, and Uber is trying to settle the class action out of court.
Chen said that Uber's proposed deal – in which the drivers would have been paid roughly $84m to give up their claims that Uber broke rules on tips and other labor rights – was too much in favor of Uber and did not afford the drivers adequate protections.
Specifically, Chen said, the non-cash portions of the deal would not bring drivers the additional employment protections, higher pay, and arbitration rights they had been seeking when they filed suit.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @04:21PM
> Which end of the spectrum you fall into on these positions seems to be very much a cultural thing
You say cultural, I say personal experience. You live through enough of that shit where you are powerless and faced with the only available choices where you are fucked no matter what by people who think you are nothing more a source of revenue to be squeezed for every drop of blood you have and no matter how much of a randian uberman you thought you were you'll start to believe in social justice pretty damn quick. Not unlike Rand herself who decided that welfare and socialized medicine was pretty damn important once she actually had no other options. [alternet.org]