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Last year, Uber introduced a "Safe Rides" fee that added a $1 charge to uberX fares.
This win for drivers comes a couple of years after Uber settled with riders over the Safe Rides fee.
Consistent with its contract and its emails to drivers, those schedules and fare webpages also showed the new Safe Rides Fee as a separate surcharge for riders.
Until approximately November 2015, nothing in Uber's contract, schedules, emails, or fare webpages suggested that drivers would pay Uber's Safe Rides Fee out of the driver's own fares.
Despite the clear terms of its written contracts including Uber's incorporated emailed promises that it would not do so — Uber took its Safe Rides Fee charges out of the drivers' fares when drivers charged riders minimum fares.
Judge Rogers also ruled all Uber drivers who signed a 2013, June 2014 or November 2014 agreement (or some combination of three), opted out of arbitration and completed at least one minimum fare ride for UberX when the Safe Rides Fee applied before November 16, 2015 are eligible to be part of the class.
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A U.S. District Court judge has just handed some Uber drivers a win by concluding the ride-hailing company breached a contract pertaining to "Safe Rides" fees.
The plaintiffs alleged Uber, despite saying it wouldn't, took the "Safe Rides Fees" from the fares drivers charged riders on minimum fare rides between April 2014 and November 2015.
In other words, when a driver provided a minimum fare ride, Uber did not charge the Safe Rides Fees to the riders (as a separate surcharge), but, instead, charged that fee to the drivers by taking it from their fare.
A $1 "safe ride fee" will also be renamed a "booking fee".
Dinners range from $6 to $12 and are not included in the ride fee.
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