Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code class action

Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:26AM (#13549227)

Love the lying headlines.

The title says: "Uber Offers Drivers $1 Each to Wipe Away Labor Threats Valued in Billions"

The article says: "The agreement calls for about $1.7 million to paid to drivers(...) The amount each driver gets depends on how many weeks they have actively driven for Uber."

Regardless, it sounds like a joke. Unless they plan to somehow disqualify 99% of the drivers, the amount will still pretty much average into a slap in the face for a drivers.

Also, as I understand the article: the settlement is for $7.75M. "The agreement calls for about $1.7 million to paid to drivers and earmarks about $2.9 million in PAGA penalties for California’s Labor and Workforce Development Agency, with the rest of the settlement sum going toward attorney fees and administration costs." Which would mean that $3.15M will go to the lawyers.

I guess the lawyers are the only party that benefits from lawsuits these days.

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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by ben_jones on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:33AM (#13549513)

Though I agree with your point I suspect Uber's driver numbers to be "inflated". Not in the literal sense of the word but in the Silicon Valley Venture Capital sense of the word.

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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by danieltillett on Thursday February 02, 2017 @04:43AM (#13549311)

Has it ever been different? What we don't hear from sharks - fish are friends.

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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by uppercasenut on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:03AM (#13549398)

--"Love they lying headlines...."The agreement calls for about $1.7 million to paid to drivers"

So they were off, by what, a penny? It's $1.7 million after all. Slice and dice it all you want...

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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:08AM (#13549425)

They don't offer $1 each, they offer $1.7M to be split according to some criterion correlated with the number of "weeks they have actively driven for Uber".

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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by uppercasenut on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:17AM (#13549453)

OK, I got it. But how much can the top person get? Maybe the company doing the math /sending checks takes $1.5 million.

In short, it's a scam, like most lawsuit settlements. The lawyers get rich, the state gets some fines and the company admits no wrongdoing and does it again and again.

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Re:Uber seeks $7.75M settlement in California labor code cla... by TeMPOraL on Thursday February 02, 2017 @05:35AM (#13549521)

I was picking on inaccurate headline. I hate inaccurate headlines - most people don't read all articles and thus end up believing nonsense when a headline is invalidated by its article.

RE this settlement being a scam - yeah, I feel the same way.

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