Bloomberg Law
Sept. 16, 2019, 3:47 PMUpdated: Sept. 16, 2019, 9:21 PM

Uber’s $20 Million Worker Classification Deal Gets Final OK (1)

Perry Cooper
Perry Cooper
Reporter
Erin Mulvaney
Erin Mulvaney
Reporter

Uber Technologies Inc. and drivers who challenged their classification as independent contractors won final approval of a $20 million settlement from the Northern District of California Sept. 13.

More than 5,600 class members have made claims and will receive an average payment of $2,200 each, class counsel told the court. The class includes over 15,000 drivers in California and Massachusetts who used the app between 2009 and 2019.

The parties originally reached a $100 million settlement that covered 240,000 drivers in California. But the court refused to approve the deal because many of the drivers had signed arbitration agreements. The ...

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