{"id":298,"date":"2015-09-17T22:28:00","date_gmt":"2015-09-17T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2015\/09\/17\/legal-trend-class-certification-for-ride-share-drivers\/"},"modified":"2015-09-17T22:28:00","modified_gmt":"2015-09-17T22:28:00","slug":"legal-trend-class-certification-for-ride-share-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/legal-trend-class-certification-for-ride-share-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Legal Trend: Class Certification for Ride Share Drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The hot legal question for ride share drivers is&#8211; Are they employees or independent contractors? A regulatory authority in California has rule don individual cases saying drivers are employees, but court consensus is coming.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear an appeal from Uber against certifying a class action lawsuit by drivers. The issue before the appellate court is supported by the argument that whether drivers are employees or independent contractors is :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a case raises &#8220;urgent [legal] questions&#8221;\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>the ride share business is a &#8220;burgeoning on-demand economy&#8221;<\/li>\n<li>because of this it is too important to leave to a single jury<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.therecorder.com\/id=1202737346969\/Uber-Appeals-Class-Certification-in-Driver-Suit?kw=Uber%20Appeals%20Class%20Certification%20in%20Driver%20Suit&amp;cn=20150916&amp;pt=Afternoon%20Update&amp;src=EMC-Email&amp;et=editorial&amp;bu=Corporate%20Counsel&amp;slreturn=20150817182830\">The Recorder<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The hot legal question for ride share drivers is&#8211; Are they employees or independent contractors? A regulatory authority in California has rule don individual cases saying drivers are employees, but court consensus is coming.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit will hear an appeal from Uber against certifying a class action lawsuit by drivers. The issue before the appellate court is supported by the argument that whether drivers are employees or independent contractors is :<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>a case&#8230;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,26,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-298","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-trend","category-regulatory-trend","category-ride-share","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/298\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}