October 30, 2017
Amid closing arguments Monday in a bench trial over whether Grubhub misclassified meal delivery drivers as independent contractors, a California federal judge observed that squaring the gig economy with existing labor rules was "tricky," and said Grubhub bears the burden of proving that its drivers were properly classified.
September 12, 2017
A Grubhub manager said the former driver suing the company for misclassifying him as an independent contractor might have gamed its clocking-in system, noting during a California federal bench trial Tuesday that the driver had electronically checked in for some shifts minutes before they ended without making a single delivery.
September 11, 2017
Plaintiffs attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan called her firm's own paralegals to testify Monday in a California federal bench trial over claims Grubhub misclassified a driver as an independent contractor, closing her case-in-chief with questions about how the staffers calculated purported wage and reimbursement damages.
September 08, 2017
Over GrubHub's objection that it had been "sandbagged," a former employee testified Friday at a California federal bench trial over claims the company misclassified a driver, bolstering allegations drivers were employees and not independent contractors by describing scenes from GrubHub's headquarters of workers monitoring, controlling and firing drivers.
September 06, 2017
A GrubHub attorney attempted to discredit a delivery driver Wednesday in a California federal bench trial over his claims that the company shorted his pay by misclassifying him as an independent contractor, pressing him on whether he signed up to work for GrubHub just to sue.
September 05, 2017
A GrubHub delivery driver's attorney told a California federal judge at the start of a bench trial Tuesday that the company shorted his pay by mislabeling him as an independent contractor, saying the suit "may well be the first trial in which a court, at least in California, is addressing the issue."
August 24, 2017
Plaintiffs' firm Lichten & Liss-Riordan PC was sanctioned Thursday in two separate California federal court cases alleging wage violations by gig-economy giants, with Uber winning sanctions related to the firm's communication with potential plaintiffs, and GrubHub winning sanctions over a failure to redact nearly 300 pages worth of documents.
July 18, 2017
Grubhub Inc. on Thursday moved for sanctions in California federal court against a lead plaintiff's legal counsel in a proposed wage-and-overtime class action, accusing his legal team of violating a protective order in the case by publicly disclosing nearly 300 pages of material designated as "confidential."
July 13, 2016
GrubHub Inc., the online food delivery service, could not put the brakes on a putative class action in California federal court Wednesday after a judge ruled the delivery driver plaintiffs sufficiently alleged facts to support claims they were denied minimum wage and overtime pay by being misclassified as independent contractors.