{"id":1013946,"date":"2026-06-12T08:27:23","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T02:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1013946"},"modified":"2026-06-12T08:30:53","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T03:00:53","slug":"lyft-uber-sue-new-york-city-to-block-driver-retention-law","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/06\/12\/lyft-uber-sue-new-york-city-to-block-driver-retention-law\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyft, Uber sue New York City to block driver retention law"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft joined Uber Technologies in suing New York \u200bCity to block a new \u200blaw they said would force them to keep bad \u200bdrivers who threaten public and passenger safety on their platforms. <\/p>\n<p>The Lyft lawsuit was filed late Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, 24 hours after Uber sued. <\/p>\n<p>Both companies are challenging Local Law 52 of \u200c2026, which \u2060generally prevents \u2060large ride-sharing companies from swiftly dismissing drivers absent a &#8220;bona fide economic reason&#8221; or &#8220;just cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lyft joined Uber Technologies in suing New York \u200bCity to block a new \u200blaw they said would force them to keep bad \u200bdrivers who threaten public and passenger safety on their platforms. The Lyft lawsuit was filed late Wednesday in Manhattan federal court, 24 hours after Uber sued. Both companies are challenging Local Law 52 of \u200c2026, which \u2060generally prevents \u2060large ride-sharing companies from swiftly dismissing drivers absent a &#8220;bona fide economic reason&#8221; or &#8220;just cause.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1013947,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013946\/revisions\/1013947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}