Uber recently settled a long-running legal battle with drivers in California and Massachusetts, who wanted it to recognize them as employees. A court can still decide whether a class-action suit makes sense for the parties involved, and the defendant can challenge class-action status in court. In the past, various state governments in Australia have sought to deregulate the taxi industry and provide traditional taxi drivers some sort of compensation. New South Wales offered a $250 million “industry adjustment package” to compensate drivers. In Victoria, taxi drivers staged protests in 2017 that caused peak-hour chaos as the government moved to abolish taxi licenses.

Source: New York Times May 03, 2019 17:28 UTC