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If that’s your preferred mode of transportation you may be out of luck because thousands of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash drivers have vowed to w ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
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By Clare Duffy and Jennifer Korn | CNN
Orlando, Florida — A Florida woman sued Lyft earlier this month, alleging that she was raped by her Lyft driver in 2019 and that the assault resulted in the birth of her third child. The suit is the latest in a string of sexual assault allegations involving the company.
Lyft has pushed back on the allegations in the lawsuit, telling CNN in a statement that the alleged assault took place during an “off-app” ride hours after an official Lyft ride with the same driver. The company also said it only became aware of the alleged incident years after it took pla ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
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Anna Claire Vollers | Stateline.org (TNS)
This month, Mississippi becomes the latest state to partner with ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft to ferry residents to their medical appointments.
It’s a bid to improve overall health in a state where advocates and medical groups have called health care a crisis that’s getting worse.
Ryan Kelly, executive director of the Mississippi Rural Health Association, said groups such as his have been working to promote more regular annual checkups, but added that transportation barriers have contributed to high rates of missed appointment ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
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When Gov. Gavin Newsom signed Senate Bill 365 this month, he opened a new chapter in a decades-long political and legal war over California laws governing relations between employers and their workers.
Briefly, SB 365 declares that when an employer loses a civil suit seeking to compel arbitration in a labor law dispute with a worker, the employer is not automatically allowed to freeze proceedings in the underlying issue by filing an appeal.
Thus, the measure weakens the long-standing ability of employers to require arbitration of such disputes, which flows from a pro-arbitration federal l ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
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By Natalie Lung | Bloomberg
Lyft Inc. is launching a feature that will try to prioritize matches between women and non-binary riders and drivers in response to demand for increased safety protections for its users.
Drivers and riders who indicate their gender preference as women or non-binary in the app, or those with a user name commonly identifiable as a woman’s name, will be given access to opt in to the feature called “Women+ Connect.” The tool will increase the chances of matching women and non binary riders with similar gender-identified drivers.
Women make up only 23% of Lyft drivers, b ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
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By Mia Gindis and Jo Constantz | Bloomberg
Companies are getting serious about returning to the office despite opposition from workers set on keeping their flexible hours. In one of the latest moves, Citigroup Inc. said this week it is requiring stricter office attendance compliance. Amid mounting layoffs and signs of a softening economy, a growing number of firms such as Blackrock Inc., Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., Snap Inc. and Walt Disney Co. have felt emboldened to require workers to show up four days a week, testing the limits of the half in-office, half at-home post-pandemic equili ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
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A 30-year-old Lyft driver from Orange was arrested on Wednesday after he was accused of kidnapping and sexually assaulting a 15-year-old girl in Santa Ana, police said.
The attack allegedly occurred in April, when Lyft driver Fredi Rojas kidnapped the girl from the area of 1200 North Bewely after she flagged him down and asked for a cell phone charger, according to authorities. Rojas stopped and offered to help the girl before forcing her into his car and driving to a nearby parking lot, where he sexually assaulted her, police said.
After that, Rojas drove the girl to a different location and ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
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By Jackie Davalos | Bloomberg
Lyft Inc. is officially discontinuing shared rides, the latest change the ride-hailing company’s new chief executive officer is making in a bid to revamp the platform to compete with Uber Technologies Inc.
“The problem with shared trips is that they take people out of their way,” David Risher said in an interview Thursday. “At some point you have to pay attention to what your customers want.”
It’s one of a slate of product changes Risher is making since taking over as CEO in April and marks the end of a feature that came to define the ride-hailing industry. San Fr ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
11M ago
RICHMOND — Hundreds more Bay Area job cuts have jolted tech and biotech workers in the region, official state filings show — staffing reductions that have shoved total tech industry layoffs beyond a forbidding new milestone.
Lyft, Dropbox and Sangamo Therapeutics have revealed plans to chop a combined 622 jobs in the Bay Area.
Here are the details of the locations for the layoffs the three companies have revealed in new filings with the state Employment Development Department (EDD):
Lyft, 383 job cuts in San Francisco
Dropbox, 182 layoffs in San Francisco
Sangamo, 57 staffing reductions in Ri ..read more
The Mercury News » Lyft
1y ago
By Michael Liedtke | Associated Press
SAN FRANCISCO — Lyft is preparing to lay off hundreds of employees just days after new CEO David Risher began steering the ride-hailing service with a eye of driving down costs to help bring its fares more in line with its biggest rival, Uber.
Risher, a former Amazon executive, informed Lyft’s workforce of more than 4,000 employees in an email posted online Friday that a “significant” number of them will lose their jobs. It came at end of his first week as Lyft’s CEO.
The note didn’t specify how many people would be jettisoned, but The Wall Street Journal ..read more