Gig Workers (like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Amazon Flex, Grubhub, Shipt, GoPuff ….)

Gig Companies already paid hundreds of millions of dollars in class action and mass arbitration settlements. Whether you like to be treated as an employee or an independent contractor, gig companies (like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Instacart, Amazon Flex, Grubhub, Shipt, GoPuff ….) might owe you money (they already paid settlements for violating the law). You have to claim it now or you might lose it to statute of limitation (if you don’t file a claim ASAP, you could be leaving money on the table). Gig companies can’t retaliate and if they did and unfairly deactivated you (which is unlikely), you might be eligible for lost wages and they might face serious penalties (that’s why they usually don’t retaliate). We are fighting fraud and manipulation committed by Gig Companies too. File a claim now and join class action or mass arbitration.

Class Action and Mass Arbitrations

A class action is a procedural device that permits one or more plaintiffs to file and prosecute a lawsuit on behalf of a larger group, or “class”. Usually, law firms make way more than plaintiffs individually in such cases, however, the “lead plaintiffs” who start the case might get awarded more than the class members to compensate for their efforts (it’s not substantial like whistleblower awards though, it’s in the 10s of thousands of dollars most of the times or even $1500-$5000). That shouldn’t discourage you from moving forwards and submitting a claim or a tip about a big corporation violation(s). If we don’t stop evil, it becomes emboldened and more innocent people suffer.
Since Class Action cases are extremely costly to big corporations, they usually resort to a loophole by adding an Arbitration Provision in the terms and conditions where customers are forced to dispute claims through mandatory individual arbitration and they can’t join class actions cases. However, most of the time you can opt out of arbitration within 30 days of agreeing to the terms and conditions (like checking a box “I Agree”). The opt out instructions are usually mentioned in the terms and conditions.
The good news, some law firms these days can start something called “Mass Arbitrations” where it negates the loophole used by big corporations to avoid accountability and has a similar effect as to class action cases but in a different way. Sometimes big corporations like DoorDash even asked the Judge to go back to the class action treatment when they were forced to pay millions of dollars in arbitration filing fees (the Judge didn’t grant them that and stated “This hypocrisy will not be blessed”).

In summary, either you opted out of arbitration or not, always report on wrongdoing committed by small or big corporations. With Class Action or Mass Arbitrations, never underestimate your voice and your power in fighting corruption and saving the innocent!

Spam SMS/Calls Telephone Consumer Protection Act TCPA

TCPA fines are between $500 and $1500 per individual violation. Yes that’s per spam SMS or call. However, you need to have the evidence (like screenshots) and you need to be already registered with the National Don’t Call Registry at https://www.donotcall.gov for more than 31 days before the time of the violation(s). Also, to start a claim, you should have received at least 2 violations from the same source. Finally, since offshore scammer and spammers send a lot of spam SMS/calls in addition to legit US corporations or businesses, it’s hard to file claims against offshore spammers and law firms make sure that they file a claim against a legit company which they can collect fines from.