Uber’s Arbitration Addiction Could Be Death by 60,000 Cuts

  • IPO disclosure exposes costly, time-consuming backlog
  • Is ride-hailing company about to ‘cry uncle’ due to demands?
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For Uber Technologies Inc., using legal arbitration to deal with driver compensation complaints -- over anything from pay to overtime to mileage reimbursement -- seemed like the smart play: it would preclude costly class-action litigation, it was private, and few drivers would go to the trouble.

That may have been a miscalculation.