Massachusetts is the second state to declare that Uber and Lyft drivers should be deemed employees under state wage and hour laws, the Attorney General’s Office announced on Tuesday (July 14). Attorney General Maura Healey’s Fair Labor Division has filed suit for declaratory judgment in...
In a move that will give more flexibility to its drivers, less predictability to passengers and potential legal protection for its parent company, Uber now is letting California drivers set their own rates — within limits. In a “driver announcement” on its blog, Uber wrote,...
OPay, the SoftBank-backed African eCommerce and payments company, has suspended its Nigerian operation, citing the coronavirus pandemic and also a government ban, Bloomberg reports. The operations affected include ride-hailing services ORide and OCar, and logistics service OExpress, Bloomberg reports. The government ban happened when Lagos,...
Uber will be requiring drivers and riders to wear masks for the forseeable future, Reuters reported. The rule, put in place May 18 to hopefully stem the spread of the coronavirus while still being able to open for business, was originally supposed to expire at...
In what could be the start of a protracted court fight, attorneys for the state of California plan to ask a judge to order Uber and Lyft to classify their ride-hailing drivers as employees rather than contractors, Reuters reported. California Attorney General Xavier Becerra said...
Pandemics and economic slumps put business models to the test — and the most flexible business models may stand the best chance of rebounding most quickly from such headwinds. To that end, ride-hailing giant Uber Technologies is branching out into software — specifically, software as...
With ridesharing having taken a hit from the pandemic, Uber is pushing into a new sector: public transportation. Uber — or Uber’s software, to be exact — will soon be managing public transportation for Marin County in the San Francisco Bay area, the Financial Times...
Grab, the $14 billion Southeast Asian ride-hailing startup, announced hundreds of job losses on Tuesday (June 16) as the impact of COVID-19 continues to take its toll. Reuters reported the company will lay off more than 300 employees. It’s the latest setback for the company’s...
The California agency that regulates ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft said their drivers are considered employees under the state’s new gig work law, the latest development in the fight over drivers’ status, Reuters reported. In a letter to the ridesharing companies, Douglas Ito, director of...
