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Uber Payout Offers Employer Lessons On Mitigating Bias

Rachel Rigg
12/06/2024
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Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber Eats UK Ltd. driver, recently settled his case with Uber after alleging that the gig economy food delivery service's use of facial recognition software was discriminatory, according to a press release on March 26 by the Equality and Human Rights Commission.

Rachel Rigg, Associate in our Employment, Pensions, Immigration and Compliance (EPIC) team discusses Manjang's employment tribunal claim, mitigating bias, data protection laws and key takeaways from the case.