Uber ordered to pay taxi drivers damages in France

A French tribunal connected Friday ordered ride-hailing work Uber to wage damages to taxi drivers whose concern suffered from unlicensed competitors.

Uber France volition person to wage 180,000 euros ($213,000) to 910 taxi drivers and their federation who brought a civilian lawsuit against Uber for unfair competition, the tribunal ruled.

The lawsuit centred connected the activities successful 2014 and 2015 of UberPop, a level that brought unneurotic clients and unlicensed drivers.

The business, marketed arsenic ride-sharing, sparked the ire of accepted taxi drivers who felt the caller work was threatening their livelihoods with inexpensive fares.

They notably argued that non-professional drivers did not person to wage for training, oregon get a taxi licence which successful Paris tin outgo much than 100,000 euros, allowing them to undercut taxis.

Uber France had already successful December 2015 mislaid its entreaty against a guilty verdict by a transgression tribunal for misleading commercialized practices, and was ordered to wage a good of 150,000 euros.

In its civilian lawsuit determination Friday, the tribunal recovered that passing disconnected untrained drivers arsenic professionals wounded the representation and the estimation of licensed taxi drivers.

The damages payout works retired astatine 192 euros for each of the 910 drivers, and 5,000 euros for the Paris taxi drivers' federation.

Uber connected Friday said that it has not been utilizing unlicensed drivers successful France since 2015, and that drivers present had to instrumentality the aforesaid tests arsenic licensed taxi drivers.

"This is simply a bully determination which volition halt different platforms from providing amerciable transport," taxi federation president Christophe Jacopin said of the verdict.

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