Coronavirus: Uber, Lyft suspend shared ride service in U.S. and Canada
Ride-hailing leaders Uber and Lyft on Tuesday both said they are suspending their services that allow for riders to share cars in the United States and Canada as part of the growing effort to stop the...
View ArticleDMV bars walk-ins, offers license extensions to some: Roadshow
Q: I’m a senior with a DMV appointment soon and I’m very nervous with the coronavirus fears if I must go into a DMV office as required for a test. … I’m 77 and whenever I’ve needed to do anything at a...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Uber and Lyft trying to evade driver unemployment costs, critics...
Ride-hailing companies Uber and Lyft are attempting to escape paying for unemployment benefits for drivers who are unable to work because of the coronavirus pandemic, critics of the firms say. The $2...
View ArticleCoronavirus layoffs: Bay Area’s Lyft to cut nearly 1,000 jobs
As part of a “plan of termination,” San Francisco ride-hailing giant Lyft will lay off 982 workers to cut costs amid damage from the coronavirus pandemic, the company said in a regulatory filing...
View ArticleLetter: ‘Haves’ are hiring ‘have-nots’ to take the risk for them
‘Haves’ hiring ‘have-nots’ to take the risk for them Re: “Instacart has hired 300,000 workers” (Page C9, April 25): It seems the “haves” class – those at home with a paycheck – can hire the “have-nots”...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Lyft pulls electric scooters out of San Jose, Oakland
SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft pulled its electric scooters out of San Jose and Oakland on the same day the ride-hailing giant slashed nearly 1,000 jobs because of the economic fallout from the coronavirus...
View ArticleLyft responds to coronavirus with cheaper rides and longer wait times
As the coronavirus pandemic has wreaked havoc upon the ride sharing industry, Lyft on Tuesday said it is launching a new program people that want to pay less and don’t mind waiting a little longer for...
View ArticleUber and Lyft pushing coronavirus burden onto taxpayers, California AG says...
The State of California and three cities have filed a lawsuit accusing Uber and Lyft of breaking the state’s new “gig worker” law by misclassifying their drivers as contractors instead of employees. In...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Uber to cut 3,700 jobs as rides plunge
Uber said Wednesday that it will cut 3,700 jobs due to a sharp decline in its ride-hailing business brought on by the coronavirus pandemic. Uber made the job cut announcement in a filing with the U.S....
View ArticleCoronavirus: Lyft, PayPal lead local stocks higher despite rising jobless claims
Lyft, PayPal and Uber were among the Bay Area companies to see their share prices surge Thursday as investors concentrated more upon steps being taken to re-open the economy than another grim report on...
View ArticleUber, Lyft would owe California $413 million in unemployment funds if drivers...
As drivers for Uber and Lyft are set to receive jobless benefits because the coronavirus pandemic has thrown so many out of work, a new UC Berkeley report says the two companies would owe California...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Uber to require all drivers and riders to wear masks
Uber will require all of its drivers and riders worldwide to wear masks over their faces for the foreseeable future, Chief Executive Dara Khosrowshahi said Wednesday. Khosrowshahi made the announcement...
View ArticleCalifornia unemployment: Layoffs rock Bay Area delivery startup
MENLO PARK — Deliv, a startup with cutting-edge technologies to speed deliveries, has chopped several hundred jobs in Silicon Valley, just months after the company changed its business model to cope...
View ArticleLetter: Cut Uber, Lyft impacts by requiring electric vehicles
The Union of Concerned Scientists has just issued a study on the effect of ride-hailing services like Uber and Lyft on carbon emissions. It calculates the excess CO2 emissions from “deadheading” — the...
View ArticleCoronavirus: Tech layoffs emerge in Bay Area as economy battles to revive
Tech companies are officially detailing the local impact of layoffs they have carried out, some linked to the fallout from the coronavirus, a grim reminder of the deep economic effects unleashed by the...
View ArticleUber, Lyft drivers are company employees says CPUC
Drivers for Uber and Lyft have scored a victory in their efforts to be considered regular employees of the companies they drive for following a ruling by the California Public Utilities Commission that...
View ArticleWalters: 2020 California ballot measures are mostly do-overs
Four months out from November’s election — and just three months until mail voting begins — outcomes of virtually all major California races are preordained, including a win by the Democratic...
View ArticleUber and Lyft sued for ‘unpaid wages’ by California Labor Commissioner over...
California opened a new front in its battle against Uber and Lyft over their classification of drivers as contractors instead of employees, with the state’s labor commissioner on Wednesday filing suit...
View ArticleCalifornia judge rules Uber, Lyft drivers are employees
SACRAMENTO — A judge on Monday ordered ride-hailing giants Uber and Lyft to treat their California drivers as employees instead of independent contractors, a shift that would guarantee benefits like...
View ArticleWalters: An official crusade against Prop. 22, the gig workers measure
Reasonable people can disagree whether the business model of Uber, Lyft and other transportation services is a model of flexible part-time work or cruelly exploits non-employee workers. Their drivers,...
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