# Professor Arun Sundararajan reacts to a court ruling awarding unemployment payments to two Uber drivers

1 Faculty News October 14, 2016 ![The Washington Post logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_031074.jpg?itok=f6OME_Rm)>

Excerpt from [The Washington Post](https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-switch/wp/2016/10/14/uber-drivers-eligible-for-unemployment-payments-new-york-regulators-find/) -- "'To me the real implication of this is highlighting the fact that lawmakers have to start recognizing that these categories are increasingly inadequate and something like unemployment benefits shouldn’t be reserved for one kind of work,' said [Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business."

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