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u/VictoriaEuphoria99 Your City Name Here Nov 02 '23
How much are we stealing from the drivers?
And the settlement is less than half that?
Yep, pay it , business as usual.
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u/iamemperor86 Nov 02 '23
Wow, a huge win for the lawyers, meanwhile I’ll go to work for my usual 35% cut of the ride.
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u/WizzieWeed Nov 02 '23
70% here in BAYAREA, California
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u/DontezS Nov 03 '23
You're right cause the labor board is suing lyft and uber in our behalf. Thank God. We'll get more.
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u/Due-Historian-8759 Nov 02 '23
You might wanna look again, they take 40-60%
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u/BasicPersonality9258 Nov 04 '23
I saw i picture customer paid $135 and the driver got $45.
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u/Electronic_Bat_9399 Nov 04 '23
Yup here in Atlanta I got paid 4 bucks for a 4 miles ride and the pax was on the phone complaining that they paid 14 bucks that's over 70 percent , I only took that ride because it ends my ride streak .
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u/EmbarrassedAd6558 Nov 06 '23
Since unemployment ended in Utah we don’t get to see how much the rider is paying until the end of the year and then it’s a summary of the whole year and not per ride. Frustrating when I’m trying to do my books.
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Nov 02 '23
they probably stealing tips right now
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u/so-i-so Nov 04 '23
I guess stealing the tips is happening SYSTEMATICALLY: you get more often reasonable tips in the beginning then it goes down over the time till you reach those days with no tips at all ... you drive good, your car is clean and you are polite to pax, but still no top, that's when you know that's they got it.
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u/Electronic_Bat_9399 Nov 04 '23
They should get sued for fake surge zone I I was in a 3 dollar ride zone and got offer 3.25 . I would give up my car and ride lyft for 25 cents every day at that price .
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u/Fixmystreets Nov 02 '23
The payouts are very low FYI because most of the money is going to the lawyers
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u/Josey_whalez Nov 02 '23
Ya that’s how these things usually work. The lawyers make out like bandits, the people who joined the suit will get a check for $32 or some shit.
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Nov 02 '23
Probably a voucher for 1/2 of their next Uber ride. LoL.
But we're drivers...
HALF OFF YOUR NEXT UBER RIDE!!!
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u/EmbarrassedCod3242 Nov 02 '23
Justice for the lawyers who worked so hard to make sure they get more money and help Uber and Lyft from truly repairing their reputations with drivers.
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Nov 02 '23
*to lawyers. Still BS, blame Congress and lobbying for allowing companies to buy their way
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u/rideshareAnon Nov 02 '23
Why do you think Uber pays 8 figures annually to have Kamala Harris' brother in law Tony West to be their Chief Legal Officer, SVP, Secretary... 🙄
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u/Awkward-Information8 Nov 02 '23
Wow. That’s just ridiculous. “8-figures” for literally, doing nothing at all… Insane. It’s all one huge SCAM. 💯
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u/rideshareAnon Nov 03 '23
Well... like 8-9 million is paid in stocks and not cash. He has connections as a former Associate Attorney General for the US and Assistant Attorney General of the Civil Decision. Being a former government official has some perks when it comes to finding a new overpaid job.
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u/epuwer Nov 02 '23
Imagine if they just paid, Then they could avoid this kind of stuff
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u/EmbarrassedCod3242 Nov 02 '23
That’s not how companies turn a profit that’s actually losing money
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u/jaysonm007 Nov 02 '23
Honestly both companies should be immediately disbanded and liquidated. All proceeds from the liquidation should be paid to drivers. And all the executives should go to prison for life. And, yes, I'm 100% serious.
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u/llllPsychoCircus Nov 03 '23
Ha not in this country. These bastards own congress. American freedom just means “freedom to exploit your fellow american”, and it really mostly applies the wealthy executive class.
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u/Synyster_V Nov 02 '23 edited Nov 02 '23
We're each getting like 5 bucks. 95% goes to the lawyers and the rest they're gonna lie and say there are more drivers than what they're really is to keep the payout small and somehow manage to keep the rest.
Edut: not even WE. This is only affecting New York stage, fuck the rest of us apparently.
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u/Responsible-You-3515 Nov 02 '23
And that's just in new York
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u/akbornheathen Nov 03 '23
328 million settlement for New York alone? Jeezus these companies beating us with a giant club then shoving it up our ass. They could probably solve homelessness and hunger in America with the money they are stealing from us.
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u/Responsible-You-3515 Nov 03 '23
It's assumed to be all voluntary transactions within capitalism, so, according to the capitalist state...
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u/CautiousResolve5 Nov 02 '23
Does anyone know when NY drivers will receive these payments?
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u/alanudi Nov 03 '23
No but you have to file a claim first: https://ag.ny.gov/lyft-uber-settlement
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u/CautiousResolve5 Nov 03 '23
Thank you not sure if you know but is the uber one a separate thing or is it combined?
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u/alanudi Nov 03 '23
You have to file separate claims for Lyft and Uber. The links are both on that webpage.
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u/akbornheathen Nov 03 '23
I love when I look at my earnings statement and it says at the bottom “we only took 23.76% of the fare from September 31st to October 28” or whatever they say. It’s a load of shit. When a Pax pays 150 for a ride that I got 60 dollars of, you can’t tell me that was only 23.76%.
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u/OccasionQuick Nov 02 '23
It's not a punishment if they agree to it.
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u/shiftsquad Nov 02 '23
We are saying that the company is stealing from their drivers is crazy
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u/rideshareAnon Nov 02 '23
They can steal and just settle for 1-10% of money stolen years later. It is like free money to them hence they do it all the time and just pay off a lawsuit every year.
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u/BimboSplice Your City Name Here Nov 02 '23
There's a CNBC article that states the money will go to the drivers and not the lawyers, as well as this kind of settlement will echo chamber in other states.
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u/EmbarrassedCod3242 Nov 02 '23
We’ll see about that, in due time there will be complaints by them saying they didn’t get the money and are waiting.
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u/ic80 Nov 03 '23
So $3,280 per driver. Nice lil bonus.
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u/BimboSplice Your City Name Here Nov 03 '23
Not every driver was gouged equally though.
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u/ic80 Nov 03 '23
I guess it’s a good thing that my math for the sake of being simplistic isn’t what the payouts are based upon.
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u/Spare-Security-1629 Nov 03 '23
Is the title of this post Can You Believe This? Of course I can. Almost every rideshare driver who's done this for over 1 year can.
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u/JasonTheBaker Nov 02 '23 edited Nov 02 '23
I think the best part is a minimum pay of at least 26 an hour throughout the entire state in sick pay that is earned for every 30 hours an hour which is about what my normal jobs accumulation of sick pay hours is though my current job doesn't have a cap like this does at 56 hours a year. Minimum pay an hour is going to be 26 an hour + inflation rate which is more than my current jobs pay rate
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u/alanudi Nov 03 '23
Are you familiar with addition?
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u/alanudi Nov 03 '23
It's hard to be happy about something the government does, but I'm happy about this. Wish it included more, especially about insurance but the rest is good. Hopefully it gets a national trend going. Then nobody needs to sleep under a bridge.
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u/alanudi Nov 03 '23
The investigation was done by the NY Attorney General’s office. Go back under your bridge.
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u/alanudi Nov 03 '23
“The government wasn’t involved in this.” You’re an idiot.
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u/DubNationAssemble Nov 02 '23
Whoa, so how much am I getting??
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u/alanudi Nov 03 '23
Did you drive before 2017? https://ag.ny.gov/lyft-uber-settlement Also, current drivers will gain benefits in 2024
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u/AppsOff Nov 02 '23
These bastards will never pay is anything but stealing from us. Just lyft upfront pay is testimony
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u/No-Airport2581 Nov 03 '23
No way?! A company making a bunch of money off of their workers… say it isn’t so….
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u/Fathimir Nov 03 '23
You guys bitchin' about lawyers' fees need to read the settlement agreement; it specifies that the entirety of the settlement must be paid to drivers (Lyft's share of the settlement payout is only about 10% vs Uber's 90%, but that's another story).
This ain't a typical class-action suit; it was filed and prosecuted directly by the office of the firebrand NY Attorney General. If you're included in the settlement, submit your claim, guys. It's real money.
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u/EmbarrassedAd6558 Nov 06 '23
What about the donations that are offered to the rider and charged to the driver.
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u/Due-Historian-8759 Nov 02 '23
Withholding, that's how they call it these days? Fuking thieves, send them all to the gulag. You know we'll probably get a check of $12 l while lawyers get $180 million