California (US) authorities fined Uber sharing company $ 59 million for they will not have provided the information they would require regarding cases of sexual harassment among their drivers and customers, as reported by the San Francisco Chronicle.
The newspaper, which allowed you to access the document delivered by the California Public Services Commission to the company, reported that in this also Uber threatens to force it to stop operations in the state if it does not pay the penalty and provides the required information in a period of three days.
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The company, for its part, publicly admits that it has not provided the required information, something that justifies on the basis of the protection of the privacy of victims of sexual harassment on Uber journeys, a reasoning that has found the complicity of some associations of victims of this type of crimes.
That the California government is now threatening to force Uber to cease operations is at least curious, since just a few months ago it was the company that threatened to stop operating in the state precisely as a weapon in its dispute. . with the administration.
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In early 2020, the California Legislature passed a law that required Uber and Lyft (and other companies in the so-called collaborative economy) to classify their drivers as employees, which could skyrocket the personnel costs of these two firms and put them into their business model.
The companies opposed with nails and teeth to measure, were about to cease their operations in California (where both have their headquarters) and finally managed to transfer the content of the law to voters through a referendum held on November 3, in which these rejected that they will be implemented according to his original writing and gave a victory to the companies.
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Classifying their drivers as salaried employees instead of contractors (their current status) would mean for Uber and Lyft, among other things, having to make a contract, pay a fixed salary and offer them benefits such as health insurance, holidays and sickness.
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