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Company: Uber Technologies Inc.
Current Parent Company: Uber Technologies
Penalty: $100,000,000
Year: 2022
Date: September 13, 2022
Offense Group: employment-related offenses
Primary Offense: wage and hour violation
Secondary Offense: tax violations
Mega-Scandal: Wage Theft
Violation Description: Uber Technologies Inc. and a subsidiary submitted a $100 million payment to the New Jersey Department of Labor and Workforce Development's Unemployment Trust Fund after an audit found the ride-share companies improperly classified hundreds of thousands of drivers as independent contractors, deprivingthem of crucial safety-net benefits such as unemployment, temporary disability and family leave insurance,and failed to make required contributions toward unemployment, temporary disability and workforce development.
Level of Government: state
Action Type: agency action
Agency: New Jersey Attorney General
Civil or Criminal Case: civil
Facility State: New Jersey
HQ Country of Current Parent: USA
HQ State of Current Parent: California
Ownership Structure of Current Parent: publicly traded
Major Industry of Current Parent: miscellaneous services
Specific Industry of Current Parent: ride-sharing services
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