Uber Drivers Push 9th Cir. to Null Arbitration, Grant Sick Leave

Uber Technologies Inc. should be forced to classify a group of Massachusetts drivers as employees and grant them sick pay, the workers’ attorney argued before a Ninth Circuit panel in a case that also raises a disputed arbitration issue that could eventually reach the U.S. Supreme Court.

“Although arbitration has become widespread, no appellate court has addressed the stark situation where a company is trying to use an arbitration agreement to prevent an injunction, which is supportive of the public interest, as well as workers, amid a global pandemic,” said Boston-based attorney Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan during oral ...