Who Signs Off When the Algorithm Sets the Pay?
241,000 drivers challenge Uber's pay algorithm under GDPR.
Worker Info Exchange International, acting through its Dutch foundation Stichting WIE International, has filed a collective legal claim against Uber at Amsterdam District Court, the city where Uber holds its EU legal seat. The claim, reported by Personnel Today and the Irish Examiner on 2 September 2026, argues that Uber's algorithmic system for setting driver pay and allocating jobs breaches Article 22 of the GDPR, the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing. The claim covers roughly 241,000 drivers across the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, France, Germany, Poland and Romania. This is not Worker Info Exchange's first case against Uber. Its director, James Farrar, brought the 2021 UK Supreme Court case that established Uber drivers as workers rather than self-employed contractors. This new claim looks at something different: the mechanics of the algorithm that decides what each driver earns and which jobs they see, separate from the employment-status question that organisation fought in 2021. A Fine That Set the Tone The claim arrives weeks after the Dutch Data Protection Authority fined Uber €825 million, reported in the same coverage, for automated driver deactivations carried out without adequate human review. I am treating that fine as background here rather than a story I have checked against the regulator's own release; it comes to me through the same press coverage as the pay claim, one hop from the DPA itself. Taken together, the two…