Uber's worker misclassification lawsuit must proceed as a class action, judge says

In a closely watched fight over whether Uber drivers should be considered employees, Uber's lawyers have argued that its 160,000 drivers in California are too different to be considered a single class. U.S. District Judge Edward Chen has rejected that claim, approving class-action status for the lawsuit proceeding in San Francisco. The status would raise the number of plaintiffs in the Uber trial to 160,000, representing the total number of drivers in California. In the ruling, the class is defined…