Uber Can Arbitrate Wage Suit Thanks to Third-Party Contracts

An Uber Techs. Inc. driver will have to take her Fair Labor Standards Act wage claim to an arbitrator after a district court granted the ride-share company’s motion to compel.

When Christina Ferreira signed up to be an Uber driver, she signed platform access agreements with Uber, Raiser LLC, Schleuder LLC, and Portier LLC. The agreements had pronoun clauses that could refer to an Uber-affiliated contracting entity accordingly or Uber collectively. They also had arbitration clauses. Ferreira opted out of the arbitration provision from Raiser, but not from Schleuder or Portier, who are non-parties to the suit after a ...