Class Certification Partially Granted In Wage, UCL Complaint Against Uber

(January 29, 2021, 12:39 PM EST) -- SAN FRANCISCO — A federal judge in California on Jan. 26 partially granted a motion for class certification by current and former Uber Technologies Inc. drivers who allege that they were misclassified as independent contractors and bring claims for wage violations and under California’s unfair competition law (UCL), finding that proceeding on a classwide basis is appropriate for adjudicating prongs A and B of the “ABC” test and that if Uber does not satisfy either prong, then the drivers’ expense reimbursement and itemized wage statement claims may proceed on a classwide basis....