March 24, 2021
The First Circuit said Tuesday that a dispute between Uber Technologies Inc. and drivers seeking employee status isn't its problem, rejecting the workers' arguments as moot since the underlying case was transferred and decided in a California federal court.
March 02, 2021
Uber and Lyft drivers took their battle for employee status to the First Circuit on Tuesday, asking the court to block the companies from using arbitration as an escape hatch from litigation challenging the classification of drivers as independent contractors.
December 14, 2020
Uber told the First Circuit it can disregard an amicus brief labor groups representing some 50,000 drivers filed last month, telling the appeals court the filing relied on "inadmissible" evidence that doesn't support their call to make the ride-hailing giant classify drivers as employees.
November 24, 2020
Labor groups representing over 50,000 Uber drivers urged the First Circuit on Monday to force the ride-hailing company to recognize them as employees and grant them sick leave during the pandemic, dismissing as "pure fiction" the company's arguments that the drivers are fee-paying customers of its matchmaking service.
September 14, 2020
Uber has told the First Circuit that a Massachusetts driver whose suit was transferred to California can't try to upend the ride-hailing giant's practice of classifying drivers as independent contractors with overblown claims that it's flouting Massachusetts wage laws and diminishing labor standards.
June 30, 2020
An Uber driver told the First Circuit on Tuesday that the company's practice of classifying drivers as independent contractors flouts Massachusetts wage laws, diminishes labor standards and strains the state's social safety nets, all of which justify granting drivers employee status through an injunction.