Uber's Other Legal Mess: Drivers Sue Over Missing Tips

Uber has been embroiled in legal fights since it first launched an app allowing people to summon its car-service drivers, as municipal bureaucrats and rival businesses sought to subject the young company to existing regulations. Like any good underdog, Uber has framed itself as a disruptive innovator taking on an entrenched, unloved and old-fashioned incumbent: the taxi industry.

But Uber is facing a new legal mess that doesn’t quite fit the David-and-Goliath storyline: Drivers say the startup is stealing their tips. The allegations appear all the more odious in the wake of last week’s news of a $258 million investment from Google, making the tech darling seem, well, a lot like the established livery industry in its relationship to its driving workforce. Read more...