{"id":2161,"date":"2021-07-14T08:40:29","date_gmt":"2021-07-14T06:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-launch-class-action-against-ride-share-company\/"},"modified":"2021-07-14T08:40:29","modified_gmt":"2021-07-14T06:40:29","slug":"new-zealand-uber-drivers-launch-class-action-against-ride-share-company","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-launch-class-action-against-ride-share-company\/","title":{"rendered":"New Zealand Uber drivers launch class action against ride share company"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Legal fight hopes to override previous ruling that drivers are not employees<\/p>\n<p>New Zealand Uber drivers are taking the global ride-share company to court, in the hopes of being legally determined as employees instead of contractors.<\/p>\n<p>It is the latest in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/mar\/17\/courts-close-in-on-gig-economy-firms-globally-as-workers-seek-rights\">string of cases<\/a> taken against the company and other ride-share apps, and the second such case in New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2021\/jul\/14\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-launch-class-action-against-ride-share-company\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/b970cbaf08f066641f55443ba14d026ba55db528\/0_192_5760_3456\/master\/5760.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=71844a58a899f2711e4b1036e8188dc7\" title=\"New Zealand Uber drivers launch class action against ride share company\" \/>Legal fight hopes to override previous ruling that drivers are not employees<br \/>\nNew Zealand Uber drivers are taking the global ride-share company to court, in the hopes of being legally determined as employees instead of contractors.<br \/>\nIt is the latest in a string of cases taken against the company and other ride-share apps, and the second such case in New Zealand. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal fight hopes to override previous ruling that drivers are not employees New Zealand Uber drivers are taking the global ride-share company to court, in the hopes of being legally determined as employees instead of contractors. It is the latest in a string of cases taken against the company and other ride-share apps, and the &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2021\/07\/14\/new-zealand-uber-drivers-launch-class-action-against-ride-share-company\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New Zealand Uber drivers launch class action against ride share company<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":2162,"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\/2161"}],"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=2161"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2161\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2162"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}