Uber Plans Millions in Back Pay After Shorting NYC Drivers
- Ride-hailing company says it will pay about $900 per driver
- Company’s cut taken from pretax sum instead of after fees
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Uber Technologies Inc. said it underpaid its New York City drivers by improperly calculating the company’s share of passenger fares, and will pay out an average of $900 per driver in restitution, costing tens of millions of dollars.
The back pay could run at least $45 million, based on the approximately 50,000 drivers the Independent Drivers Guild says work in New York City.