(Bloomberg) – Sharing economy workers' best shot at suing to rewrite the rules of their employment may soon pass them by.
With judges poised Thursday to consider settlements that will leave Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. drivers as independent contractors, two of the biggest names in the on-demand economy will avoid policy changes that would force them to rethink their business models.
Uber and Lyft can also keep using a play borrowed from the traditional economy by requiring drivers to take disputes to private arbitration rather than court. Such agreements, coupled with provisions blocking workers from using the leverage of class action lawsuits like the ones filed by Uber and Lyft drivers, are now ubiquitous among U.S. employers. The drivers' cases were allowed to proceed only because their lawyer found holes in earlier versions of company contracts.
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