Mobile Apps, Drivers

Digital Platforms, Beware of the Evolving EU Platform Work Directive

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 1/22/2024

After more than two years of legislative highs and lows for the European Union’s proposed Platform Work Directive, the EU may be inching closer to adopting regulations on the classification of platform workers, such as...more

Court to Consider Whether California Ride Share Drivers Who Make Airport Runs Are Exempt from the Federal Arbitration Act

Epstein Becker & Green on 12/4/2019

On November 26, 2019, San Francisco Superior Court Judge Richard B. Ulmer ruled that the Federal Arbitration Act (“FAA”) might not apply to Uber drivers who are engaged in interstate commerce while driving passengers to or...more

Rideshare and Chill? Lyft Introducing a Spotify/Netflix-Inspired Subscription Service

Fisher Phillips on 10/23/2018

In many of the U.S.’s most congested cities, ridesharing is a way of life because owning a car is expensive and inconvenient. Among frequent riders, many use Uber and Lyft apps interchangeably depending on driver availability...more

Bed Time! Uber Announces Mandatory Rest Periods

Fisher Phillips on 3/16/2018

In a move met with near-universal praise, Uber recently announced it will now require drivers take at least six hours of time off for every 12 hours they spend driving. After announcing this decision last month, Uber rolled...more

Uber Lives to Fight Another Day

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner on 1/28/2016

On 20 January 2016, in what Uber termed as “a victory for common sense” , Transport for London (“TFL”) surrendered to its critics and abandoned the majority of the proposed measures it put forth in its September 2015...more

CMA criticises TFL’s proposed new regulations for private hire vehicle companies

Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner on 1/5/2016

Earlier this month, the UK’s competition watchdog, the Competitions and Markets Authority (“CMA“), criticised Transport for London’s (“TFL“) proposed new rules for private hire vehicle companies, which would impose...more

Former Uber Driver Files Class Action for Data Security Breach

Moore & Van Allen PLLC on 4/9/2015

Uber Technologies Inc., the internet-based taxi service, was recently hit with a putative class action lawsuit over a data breach involving the personal information of about 50,000 current and former drivers. Uber develops,...more

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