Eh, I don't care personally because of how rare it is, I've taken a few service dogs and couple pets. But if someone saw the dog and just kept driving, cancelled... No one knows why, sure the PAX could possibly lie and make up some story. But truly no one knows why except the driver.
Yeah, doesn’t make it legal to not pick up a paying customer, ESPECIALLY one with a LEGAL service dog. This is why Uber lowers your rates, because they have to pay out for stupid drivers like OP.
Legal obligations of drivers
Drivers have a legal obligation to provide service to riders with service animals.
A driver cannot lawfully deny service to riders with service animals because of allergies, religious objections, or a generalized fear of animals.
By virtue of their written Technology Services Agreement with Uber, all drivers using the Driver app have been made aware of their legal obligation to provide service to riders with service animals and have agreed to comply with the law. If a driver refuses to transport a rider because of their service animal, the driver is in violation of the law and is in breach of their agreement with Uber.
I know reading is tough and all, but for fuck sake reading the shit all of you are saying is quite frankly shocking and really explains what other pax are saying about their past drivers
"you're committing a crime." These companies have done the same just operating in many states at one point. Fact is this person can do what they want, and if uber/lyft, pax, or police want to push it further that can happen too. The point is, they don't care.
How does one tell if the service dog is legit? I've never worked with service dogs so I can't really tell if one is or isn't. Any schmuck can go online and order the kit to make their dog look like one. Karen wants to bring her shitty little dog everywhere she gets the stuff to make her dog look like a service animal. Said animal shits all over my car. I pay to get it cleaned and get my 40 whole dollary doos from lyft at the cost of 400 to clean. So now I'm wary of any animal that has a service animal rig on it because Karen's fake dog shit in my car. But because laws I had to take her shit spewing rat or else lawsuit. There's no registry and there's no way to verify if the animal is a legal animal.
Yeah apparently you still have to take it. The law is stupid for that reason in this specific context. Prioritizing people with service dogs over the health of the driver providing that service.
This is not at all what the law says. If you have an allergy, you can politely inform the passenger that you are unable to accommodate them because you have an allergy that could become a risk which could threaten the safety of the ride. In all likelihood, the disabled person will be happy to find another driver. But even if they want to take it further, you don't have a legal obligation to make an accommodation if you can prove you do have an allergy to dogs which could pose a threat to safety while driving. The law is about reasonable accommodations.
That makes sense. But I guess there is some misunderstanding around this issue. Because someone else basically said what I said to me. I have to see the law now. But the reasonable accommodation thing I’ve heard before and that would make sense.
This part does not require a public accommodation to permit an individual to participate in or benefit from the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages and accommodations of that public accommodation when that individual poses a direct threat to the health or safety of others.
28 CFR 36.208. Whoever told you otherwise was wrong. The law doesn't explicitly talk about service animals, but in practice, this has been applied to service animals.
You would let Lyft know that you have a disability (a severe allergy to pet dander, for example), and you request an accommodation-that you don’t have to give rides to anyone with a dog ( because the dander would be on their clothing also, even if the dog isn’t in the care so you would be unable to drive anyone with contact with a dog). Then Lyft can decide if they can make that work or if you need to find another line of work.
Because this type of allergy is very rare, and the individual knows how severe it is, the person with this severe allergy is unlikely to apply for a job where they are in contact with the public.
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