OTTAWA — The Supreme Court of Canada will help decide whether a proposed class-action lawsuit against ride-hailing service Uber can move ahead. The high court has agreed to hear Uber’s challenge of an Ontario Court of Appeal decision that paved the way for the suit aimed at securing a minimum wage, vacation pay and other benefits for drivers. The man behind the planned …
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…Many said that, when they discovered them, their DoorDash listings were littered with errors. The owner of a Toronto bakery said her menu on DoorDash offered bacon and eggs. The manager of an Italian cocktail bar in Toronto started getting calls asking for chicken wings. And more than once, prices were changed: In the case …
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This is gearing up to be one ugly food fight. Restaurant owners have been digging into their Grubhub billing records and demanding their money back since reading The Post’s exclusive report Monday about how the food delivery giant has been racking up fees for non-existent orders — potentially for years. Nicky Perry, owner of two Manhattan hot …
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The IRS believes many Uber and Lyft drivers are cheating on their taxes, and Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., is pushing legislation that would dramatically reduce the income threshold above which gig economy companies that rely on contractors must report to the IRS. As a means of cracking down, the legislation would force Uber and Lyft to …
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…Grubhub was sued by Munish Narula, who owns Tiffin Indian Cuisine in Philadelphia on charges for “phantom orders for at least seven years.” The lawsuit alleged that the food delivery company’s 115,000 restaurant partners are facing this kind of overcharging. The lawsuit alleges that behind the thriving commission taking exercise is the modus operandi was …
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The NLRB released the advisory memo on Tuesday, nearly a month after it was originally issued. It concludes that Uber drivers are independent contractors and not employees — a classification that means they have no right to form a union or bargain collectively. The memo, which comes from the NLRB’s general counsel’s office, serves as …
For Uber Technologies Inc., using legal arbitration to deal with driver compensation complaints — over anything from pay to overtime to mileage reimbursement — seemed like the smart play: It would preclude costly class-action litigation, it was private and few drivers would go to the trouble. That may have been a giant miscalculation. As the …
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DoorDash Inc. illegally collects and pockets sales tax on food orders delivered in tax-free states, a class action filed April 5 alleges. The food delivery company’s practice of charging customers located in states that don’t allow collection of sales tax—including Delaware, New Hampshire, and Montana—”is plainly unlawful, unfair, and deceptive,” the suit says. The tax …
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LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) – It’s been about a month since two lawsuits have been filed against the food delivery service, Waitr. The two drivers, Jualeia Halley and Heather Gongaware, are a part of a much larger group of over 100 drivers claiming they weren’t properly paid by Waitr, according to their attorney Carter Hastings. …
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The CEO of Waitr Holdings brushed off the threat of lawsuits from the company’s driver network, the like of which have dogged Uber and other companies in recent years in the “gig economy,” where people typically operate under short-term contracts or on freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs. …The dozens of labor act lawsuits …
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