Meet Shannon Liss-Riordan, also known as 'Sledgehammer Shannon. She has sued companies from Uber to DoorDash and won judgments of up to $100 million on behalf of their workers. She plans to do the same for the employees of Elon Musk's Twitter.
looked increasingly likely to lose his court battle and be forced into purchasing Twitter, Justine De Caires started to get nervous.
“It was kind of like, ‘OK, let’s wait and see how this goes,’” De Caires recalled of that first conversation. “But when things started happening—oh, she was ready.”at Twitter in November—a proverbial Red Wedding that cut the staff in half—has proven fertile ground for lawsuits. But Liss-Riordan, a labor rights veteran once dubbed “Sledgehammer Shannon,” was perhaps the best-equipped attorney in the country to handle the case.
“I find it really concerning when the richest man in the world— well, now the formerly richest man in the world—thinks that he can do whatever he wants and is above the law,” she told The Daily Beast. Liss-Riordan quickly became the firm’s resident expert in securing lost wages for tipped employees, using an obscure state law that prevented managers from dipping into the tip pool. In 2006, she secured an estimated $2.5 million in damages for wait staff at Hilltop Steakhouse in Saugus; two years later, she got American Airlines to pay nine local skycaps more than $325,000 in lost tips. analysis, she brought at least 40 lawsuits on behalf of tipped employees; in 2012, she won a $14.
Liss-Riordan listens to taxi drivers at Foley Square after over 5,600 sued the New York City Taxi and Limousine CommissionBut fighting the behemoths of the gig economy proved harder than clawing back tips for baristas. Drivers for Lyft and Uber remain classified as independent contractors and the underlying business model remains untouched.
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