Proposed Lyft Settlement Maintains Dangerous Model of Employee Misclassification Doug Bloch (OAKLAND, Calif.) –– Today, the Teamsters Union and Lyft drivers will file legal objections to a class-action lawsuit settlement which would continue to misclassify Lyft employees in California as independent contractors. The objectors, who also plan to intervene in the lawsuit, will file their …
Almost 300 institutional investors in Volkswagen have filed a multi-billion dollar suit against the carmaker for what they claim were breaches of its stock market duty in the emissions cheating scandal. The lawsuit, for damages of €3.3bn ($3.6bn), was filed at a regional court in Braunschweig in VW’s home state of Lower Saxony on Monday and is being brought by 278 investors from all over the …
Volkswagen deleted documents and obstructed justice after the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency accused the automaker of cheating on emissions tests, a former employee alleged in a lawsuit. Daniel Donovan says in a whistleblower case that he was wrongfully fired Dec. 6 after refusing to participate in the deletions and reporting them to a supervisor. The lawsuit says the evidence deletion …
AT&T won’t face a class action lawsuit over throttling speeds for customers with unlimited smartphone data plans. U.S. District Court Judge Edward Chen handed down that ruling after determining the plaintiffs must all deal with AT&T individually because their contracts prohibit class action cases. AT&T dodges class action status in iPhone data throttling lawsuit Customers filed the lawsuit …
Bank of Queensland will defend proceedings against them in the Federal Court. Photo: Glenn Hunt Bank of Queensland is facing a second class action from customers of disgraced financial planner Bradley Sherwin over claims it failed to stop a multimillion dollar “Ponzi”-like investment scheme from taking place. Mr Sherwin is currently facing various fraud charges over his alleged role as director …
Shreveport, the seat of Caddo Parish, is tucked in Louisiana’s north-west corner, bordering small towns in Texas and Arkansas. It has bayous, weeping willows, shotgun houses, and blues music, but lacks joie de vivre. It is the sober man’s New Orleans.
The ride sharing service Uber has been quietly testing an emergency hotline for passengers. Uber has faced safety concerns lately, after an Uber driver was charged with killing six individuals and injured two more during a shooting rampage in Kalamazoo, Mich. this February. The driver picked up Uber passengers for rides in between the shootings.
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