SF Politics Florence Kong, Former SF Contractor Linked to Mohammed Nuru Bribery Ring, Gets One of the Largest Ethics Fines In City History Florence Kong, one of the many, many people ensnared in a federal probe of San Francisco City Hall that dates back to 2019 and beyond, has just agreed to an eyebrow-raising $750,000 settlement with the city.
SF News Valet App Luxe Is Shutting Down Existing Door-to-Door Service Current users of Luxe are out of luck: The San Francisco-based parking service known for its blue-jacket clad, scooter-toting valets, is shutting down its door-to-door service. But CEO Curtis Lee is pushing back
SF News How Uber Games Its Drivers To Get Them To Drive More Uber makes no secret of its ambitions to replace human drivers ASAP, testing autonomous cars in a highly public manner. But for the moment, and even for the next decade, the ride-hailing company
SF News Lyft Agrees To $27 Million Settlement Keeping CA Drivers As Contractors The big fight over whether ride-hailing drivers are contractors or employees — a contest that, pundits proposed, might threaten the very foundation of business models for the likes of Lyft and Uber — is close
SF News Uber Employee Appears To Record Protesting Drivers' License Plates, Denies Affiliation With Company In relation to Monday's protest held by 200 or so drivers, a company spokesperson tells BuzzFeed that “Uber respects our partners’ first amendment rights" and that they "do not — and have not — taken
SF News Uber Protest Less Disruptive Than Imagined With Just 200 Of 1,500 Expected Drivers The "Uber Drivers United" representative whose call to protest the company's recent fare cuts — from 10 to 45 percent in 100 North American cities such as San Francisco — might have been tooting his
SF News The Life Of Another Uber Non-Employee: The Customer Service Rep A video posted by Uber (@uber) on Jun 1, 2015 at 10:13am PDT An anonymous personal essay on The Billfold, a website about finance, takes on a subset of the many contractors
SF News Cleaning Service Startup Homejoy Shuts Down Over Worker Classification Lawsuits In what could be the first of several shakeups in the "on-demand" / "gig economy," San Francisco-based startup Homejoy is calling it quits on July 31. The primary reason: It's fighting four lawsuits over
SF News Jeb Bush Trolls Hillary Clinton By Taking Uber To SoMa Startup Jeb! Uber! Startups! Today, the Associated Press reports in the New York Times that presidential hopeful Jeb Bush gave ride-sharing "technology" a whirl during his visit to San Francisco. Bush hailed an Uber
SF News Another Worry For Uber: Suit Finds Yellow Cab Drivers Are Employees It's seeming more and more inevitable that the California courts will find that drivers for Uber and Lyft, and likely the independent contractors who do things like your Instacart shopping and Washio laundry
SF News Being An Uber Driver Is Hard. Being An 'Uber Of Pot' Driver Is Harder. A photo posted by Eaze (@eaze_team) on May 11, 2015 at 2:50pm PDT Working as a contractor, for example as a driver-partner with Uber, carries its share of risks. Need a
