Court puts brakes on Uber bid to resolve work issues overseas

Ontario Uber drivers should not be forced to resolve employment issues through expensive arbitration in the Netherlands, the court of appeal has ruled, calling a provision to that effect in the company’s service agreement an “unfair bargain.”

Lior Samfiru is a Toronto Employment Lawyer and partner at Samfiru Tumarkin LLP. He is also a lead lawyer on the class-action lawsuit filed against Uber in Ontario. He said that allowing employment issues to be resolved through foreign arbitration clauses would have amounted to the “death of employment laws in this province.”

“It deprives anyone from the ability to pursue their rights,” he told the Star.