EEOC Says Uber Should Face Claims That Driver Ratings Are Biased

The U.S. agency that enforces workplace discrimination laws has urged a federal appeals court to revive a lawsuit alleging that Uber Technologies Inc’s system allowing passengers to rate drivers is racially discriminatory. The U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) filed a “friend-of-the-court” brief this week backing an appeal by Thomas Liu, an Asian-American who drove for Uber in San Diego, California, and claims the five-star rating system improperly relies on passenger evaluations that can be biased. A federal judge in San Francisco last year said Liu could not prove that Uber’s system had a discriminatory impact on non-white drivers, citing…