Uruguay forces Uber to recognize a driver as a dependent worker

Montevideo. The courts of Uruguay forced the American transportation service company Uber to recognize the employment relationship of dependence with one of its drivers, something that until now had not happened in the South American country. The first-round Labor Court of Appeals upheld the first-instance ruling in favor of the plaintiff driver issued in March and ordered that Uber affiliate him as a “dependent worker” with the Uruguayan social…

The ruling ordered the company to take out accident insurance, rectify labor documentation, and pay wage differences