Case file / Wage suppression

Uber

Algorithmic wage discrimination

Scholars and litigation allege Uber's driver-pay algorithm makes individualised offers based on each driver's data, so the same trip is offered to different drivers at different rates, suppressing wages for those whose data suggests they will accept less.

The alleged harm

• /Drivers paid less than a non-personalised system would yield
• /Hits new, financially constrained, and lower-income-area drivers hardest
• /UK Supreme Court (2021): drivers are workers owed minimum wage

On the record

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