Enlarge / A sticker with the Uber logo is displayed in the window of a car on June 12, 2014 in San Francisco, California. (credit: Justin Sullivan/Getty Images)
An Uber driver in North Carolina has sued Uber in a proposed class-action lawsuit. He alleges that he and other drivers like him are consistently underpaid based on the company’s own formula.
Since nearly the beginning, Uber has paid its drivers 80 percent of a given fare. However, in the lawsuit, lawyers representing the driver, Martin Dulberg, claim that the company has now changed the way it calculates what that fare is. The result is that the company consistently pays between 70 and 80 percent—but not the full 80 percent—of what the fare should be.
In the new lawsuit, which was filed Tuesday in federal court in San Francisco, Dulberg’s lawyers allege:
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