{"id":1019,"date":"2021-04-02T15:09:32","date_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/uber-ordered-to-pay-1-1m-to-blind-passenger-who-was-denied-rides-14-times\/"},"modified":"2021-04-02T15:09:32","modified_gmt":"2021-04-02T13:09:32","slug":"uber-ordered-to-pay-1-1m-to-blind-passenger-who-was-denied-rides-14-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/uber-ordered-to-pay-1-1m-to-blind-passenger-who-was-denied-rides-14-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind passenger who was denied rides 14 times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Arbitrator rebuffed the company\u2019s position that it wasn\u2019t liable for drivers\u2019 behavior given their status as contractors<\/p>\n<p>Ride share giant <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/uber\">Uber<\/a> must pay a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/society\/blindness\">blind <\/a>passenger $1.1m following a discrimination claim that its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/mar\/18\/a-lot-are-sceptical-uber-drivers-cautious-welcome-over-worker-status\">drivers<\/a> unlawfully denied her rides on 14 occasions, an arbitrator decided Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>This arbitrator rebuffed the company\u2019s position that it wasn\u2019t liable for drivers\u2019 behavior given their status as contractors, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.businessinsider.com\/uber-pay-1-million-blind-passenger-arbitration-discrimination-ada-2021-4?utm_campaign=sf-bi-main&amp;utm_medium=social&amp;utm_source=facebook.com&amp;fbclid=IwAR044FjhL0t5Oeb6OAY6I3907MM4s00mdpicR22gdA34RsesHRT-sL0m0T4\">according to news website Insider<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/apr\/02\/uber-blind-passenger-ordered-to-pay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/c0273a36f2339ace12f94ec843a888a5a11f15b2\/0_36_5000_3002\/master\/5000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=6101d3b5a9033d90cddf36a2cb623707\" title=\"Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind passenger who was denied rides 14 times\" \/>Arbitrator rebuffed the company\u2019s position that it wasn\u2019t liable for drivers\u2019 behavior given their status as contractors<br \/>\nRide share giant Uber must pay a blind passenger $1.1m following a discrimination claim that its drivers unlawfully denied her rides on 14 occasions, an arbitrator decided Thursday.<br \/>\nThis arbitrator rebuffed the company\u2019s position that it wasn\u2019t liable for drivers\u2019 behavior given their status as contractors, according to news website Insider. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arbitrator rebuffed the company\u2019s position that it wasn\u2019t liable for drivers\u2019 behavior given their status as contractors Ride share giant Uber must pay a blind passenger $1.1m following a discrimination claim that its drivers unlawfully denied her rides on 14 occasions, an arbitrator decided Thursday. This arbitrator rebuffed the company\u2019s position that it wasn\u2019t liable &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/04\/02\/uber-ordered-to-pay-1-1m-to-blind-passenger-who-was-denied-rides-14-times\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Uber ordered to pay $1.1m to blind passenger who was denied rides 14 times<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":1020,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1019"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1019\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1019"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1019"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1019"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}