SF News Reclassifying Drivers As Employees Could Cost Uber $209 Million In California Alone A rough model built by Re/code with the help of ZenPayroll estimates that Uber could end up paying an added $208.7 million a year if it has to reclassify its California
SF News Uber Reaches Wrongful Death Settlement With Family of Sofia Liu A precedent-setting case against rideshare behemoth Uber has been settled, and the family of Sofia Liu, who was killed in a crosswalk by an UberX driver on New Year's Eve 2013 has won
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 Now Uber Wants To Track Your Location Even When App Is Not Running Rapidly expanding, IPO-hinting "technology platform" Uber makes way too many headlines these days. But in the case of their new privacy policy, due to take effect July 15, it feels like they may
SF News Uber Bans Guns For Both Drivers And Riders Uber has banned firearms across the board for both drivers and riders. According to the AP, the new Uber policy went into effect on June 10, making its policy as strict as its
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
SF News Trans Woman Who Sued Uber For Expenses Wants To Become CEO It's beginning to look like Barbara Ann Berwick, the woman who successfully petitioned the California Labor Commission for reimbursable expenses during her stint as an Uber driver last summer and won a ruling
SF News Much To Uber's Dismay, SFMTA Approves Private Vehicle Restrictions For Market Street After three hours of public comment Tuesday, the board for the San Francisco Municipal Transportation Agency unanimously approved a plan that would dramatically change how private vehicles use a significant stretch of Market
SF News Uber Drivers One Step Closer To Being Called Employees After CA Labor Commission Ruling While federal lawsuits are still pending against Uber and Lyft seeking to reclassify the companies' fleet of drivers as employees rather than independent contractors, a new ruling Tuesday by the California Labor Commission
SF News Uber Makes Statement Opposing Basic Human Right Of Public Assembly "Everyone has the right to freedom of peaceful assembly and association." — The United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights “We firmly oppose any form of gathering or protest." — Uber Guess there's one thing
SF News Now That Taxis Have A Small Advantage On Market Street, Uber Wants To Be Treated Like Them Usually insistent upon being considered a "Transportation Network Company," which is to say a technology business and not some sort of retrograde taxi service, Uber "Technologies" has changed its tune this week at
SF News Grand Theft Uber: Company Releases Mobile Game To Test Knowledge Of SF Streets (And Recruit Drivers) Without Google Maps, could Uber even exist? As an increasing number of ride-hailing drivers live outside of the area in which they operate, a fair few are mostly or completely reliant on their
SF News Look Upon Uber's New Mission Bay Headquarters, Ye Mighty, And Despair Feast your eyes upon this monumental vision for Uber's Mission Bay corporate headquarters, which as the Business Times reports, is expected to open by late 2017 or early 2018. We first heard about
SF News Florida Agency Declares Uber Driver An Employee As we await federal court decisions in San Francisco in two separate class-actions pertaining to this issue against both Uber and Lyft, the Florida Department of Economic Opportunity has ruled in favor of
SF News Uber May Be Signaling An IPO, Poached Carnegie Mellon Lab For Self-Driving Car Prototype A photo posted by Uber (@uber) on Oct 31, 2014 at 10:23am PDT All ride-hail Uber. Yes, you can follow them on Instagram for more unintentionally brilliant stuff like this. But while
SF News Uber Tests Taking Higher Commission From Drivers 'Because We Can' "'You've got happy employees, you've got happy customers, you've got happy shareholders," the president of an investment fund recalls grilling Uber's CFO, Brent Callinicos, to Business Insider. "The holy triumvirate are all really
SF News Here Are All The Reasons Traffic Sucks More Than Ever In SF Everyone who's been anywhere near downtown in the last year or two knows how much longer it takes to get from point A to B than it used to. San Francisco has, maybe
SF News Uber Surged Big-Time During Wednesday's BART Delays Uber has promised not to gouge "surge" their ride prices during storms and other emergencies, a promise it may not always be keeping. But during a BART shitstorm such as yesterday's track deformity
Arts & Entertainment Video: SF Cab Driver Releases Documentary On What It's Like To Compete With Uber And Lyft People who follow San Francisco's transit industry are likely familiar with the name John Han — he's written, on and off, about the cab business for years on his blog, and he's a frequent
SF News Uber Driver Injured By Passenger In Attack Sues For Workers Comp An Uber driver whose nose was broken after being attacked by a passenger is now suing the company for workers comp. Abdo Ghazi filed the lawsuit in San Francisco Superior Court on April
SF News Yep, Uber Is Getting In The Delivery Game, Big Time As predicted a year and a half ago, Uber has much bigger plans than being just "everyone's private driver." As Tech Crunch is reporting via some leaked training docs, Uber's in the process
SF News Man Calls For Uber Ride From The Marina, Ends Up Beaten And Robbed In a tale that seems custom-made for SFist commenter yermom72, an Uber representative is sidestepping allegations that a driver with their service is behind a wild ride across San Francisco that ended in
SF News Facebook, Other Tech Companies Step Up To Help Nepal, Matching Donations For Relief Effort A number of tech companies stepped up in the wake of the disastrous earthquake in Nepal over the weekend, but so far Facebook seems to have emerged with a surfeit of generosity, as
SF News Uber Driver Who Allegedly Ran Down Cyclist Surrenders His License 38-year-old Uber driver Emerson Decarvalho of Daly City, arrested Sunday for allegedly hitting a bicyclist in Fisherman Wharf on purpose after an altercation, has surrendered his driver;s license, KRON4 reports. The victim,
SF News [Updated] Uber Driver Arrested For Allegedly Attacking Cyclist In Fisherman's Wharf KCBS reports that this afternoon an Uber driver was arrested following an incident of road rage involving a cyclist at around 1:30 p.m. in Fisherman's Wharf. The Uber driver, 38-year-old Emerson
