Uber Gets Some Drivers’ Worker Status Claims Sent to Arbitration

Uber Technologies Inc. can force three drivers to arbitrate claims the company misclassified them as independent contractors when they’re really employees, but a fourth worker’s allegations belong in court, a federal judge said.

The workers argued that they had all opted out of the arbitration provision in later versions of the ride-hailing platform’s access agreement, but for three of them, those subsequent opt-outs don’t “supersede or invalidate their earlier agreements to arbitrate,” the US District Court for the Northern District of Illinois said Monday.

Plaintiffs Mazen Hasan Agha, Michael Crissman, Thomas Loftus, and Ken Zurek all drove for Uber in ...