Uber Sued for Allegedly Undercutting New York Driver Fares (1)

Uber Technologies Inc. is facing a new lawsuit from 96,000 drivers in New York who say the rideshare company hasn’t repaid taxes it deducted from drivers’ cut of fares.

Drivers represented by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance sued Uber in federal court in Manhattan on Nov. 6. They say the company violated contracts with drivers by deducting ride-hail taxes from drivers’ cut of fares, on top of a 20% to 28% “service fee.”

“The drivers haven’t been compensated for all of the stolen wages,” Bhairavi Desai, the group’s founder, told Bloomberg Law. “Uber was taking the cost of the ...