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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: 2) by davester666 on Saturday August 20 2016, @07:10PM
Yes, it comes down to:
1) have you learned much about history and can you remember any of it
2) are you on the management side of the equation or the work side
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @07:27PM
> 2) are you on the m̶a̶n̶a̶g̶e̶m̶e̶n̶t̶ ownership side of the equation or the work side
FTFY
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday August 20 2016, @08:22PM
One of the advantages of our system is that anybody can become a manager. A good manager with proper execution of embellished college careers, fake references, backstabbing, office politics, budgetary shenanigans, scapegoating, etc, just the basics really, don't even need full blown sociopathy, can get into the ownership class. Maybe not the household names you know, but it's possible.
Nobody ever checks the first two I listed; that's just getting your foot in the door by proving that you've realized not only that honesty is the worst policy but also that you can make up a plausible lie.
Now, the people make the CxO class and own the megayachts and tropical island 17 bedroom mansions with full time staff, the elite of the ownership class, those people need authentic sociopathy.