Another Uber Technologies Inc lawsuit settlement is under siege, with warring lawyers for drivers again trying to tear the deal apart.
The company wants a Los Angeles judge to bless a proposal to pay 1.6 million California drivers about a dollar each to drop a lawsuit seeking the protections and benefits of employees. For Uber, with a valuation of US$69bil (RM307.15bil), that’s a small price to resolve one of more than a dozen US lawsuits challenging its contractor-based business model – especially after the attorney for the drivers initially said the case was worth billions of dollars.