First Circuit Drops Lyft Worker Off at Arbitration (1)

A Massachusetts Lyft Inc. driver will have to arbitrate his argument that the company misclassified him as an independent contractor, the First Circuit said March 13.

Yilkal Bekele’s appeal had been paused while the U.S. Supreme Court considered the same argument he was advancing—whether class action waivers are valid when used in employment contracts.

After the Supreme Court concluded class action waivers like the one used in Lyft’s terms of service are valid, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit reopened considerations on Bekele’s state-law arguments, Judge Sandra Lynch said in the court’s opinion.

Bekele’s claims join ...