Rough ride: how Uber quietly took more of your fare with its algorithm change
by Simon Goodley from Technology | The Guardian on (#6Y3JW)
Ride-hailing app's take rate' - or cut - sometimes reaches more than 50% since introduction of dynamic pricing
More than a decade after being one of 19 Uber drivers who took the company to court in 2015, Abdurzak Hadi continues to drive for - and fight with - the ride hailing app.
The group won their claim confirming their entitlement to the legal minimum wage - but the Silicon Valley company's insistence that its drivers were self-employed contractors meant the case went all the way to the supreme court. In 2021, Hadi and friends won there too.
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