Uber will pay more than 8,000 taxi and hire car drivers in Australia almost 272 million Australian dollars ($179 million) in compensation for losses they suffered after the ride-sharing giant entered the country in 2012, lawyers representing the drivers said Monday.
Uber will pay more than 8,000 taxi and hire car drivers in Australia almost 272 million Australian dollars in compensation for losses they suffered after the ride-sharing giant entered the country in 2012, lawyers representing the drivers said Monday. The settlement is the fifth-largest in Australia’s history, according to Maurice Blackburn Lawyers, the law firm that filed the class action suit in 2019.
“This caused loss of income to authorized taxi drivers and operators, and hire car operators. It also resulted in a drop in the value of taxi licenses,” said Elizabeth O’Shea, principal lawyer for class actions at Maurice Blackburn, in a video posted to the firm’s website. “The law then changed in these states to make Uber’s business legal going forward,” she added.
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