Labor/Employment
Mar. 14, 2015
Judge slams Uber legal argument and sends misclassification suit to jury
Two San Francisco judges on Wednesday denied motions by Uber and Lyft in employee misclassification suits, each sending the different cases to a jury.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
From the looks of a decision issued late Wednesday by a San Francisco federal court, fast-growing Uber Technologies Inc.'s days of classifying drivers as independent contractors, and not employees, could be numbered.
U.S. District Judge Edward M. Chen threw the book at Uber for calling itself a technology and not a transportation company, which is the San Francisco-based corporations' centra...
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