Uber and Lyft also agreed to an 'earnings floor,' the N.Y. attorney general said.
Uber agreed to pay $290 million and Lyft $38 million in what New York Attorney General Letitia James called the largest wage-theft settlement her office has ever secured.
"We look forward to continuing this work in order to provide New York drivers the independence and full range of benefits available to those in other states, like California and Washington," Bird said in a statement. Today, Uber reached a with New York Attorney General Letitia James, that gets us closer to achieving that goal.
Lyft used a similar method to shortchange drivers from 2015 to 2017, deducting an 11.4% "administrative charge" from drivers' payments in New York equal to the amount of sales tax and Black Car Fund fees that should have been paid by riders.
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