{"id":80,"date":"2019-02-02T20:26:18","date_gmt":"2019-02-03T01:26:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/in-print\/volume-25-number-3-spring-2018\/getting-fired-by-an-app-the-shifting-legal-landscape-of-criminal-records-based-exclusions-from-transportation-network-companies-in-washington-d-c\/"},"modified":"2026-02-09T09:10:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-09T14:10:10","slug":"getting-fired-by-an-app-the-shifting-legal-landscape-of-criminal-records-based-exclusions-from-transportation-network-companies-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/getting-fired-by-an-app-the-shifting-legal-landscape-of-criminal-records-based-exclusions-from-transportation-network-companies-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting Fired by an App: The Shifting Legal Landscape of Criminal-Records-Based Exclusions from &#8220;Transportation-Network Companies&#8221; in Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Examining the exclusion of a class of D.C. workers from two of the most well-known players in the gig economy\u2014Uber and Lyft\u2014reveals the role of local politics in the inability of marginalized workers to access gig work as well as the gaps within current discrimination law. In this Article, I will examine some specific problems for D.C.-based workers with a criminal history attempting to drive for these \u201cTransportation Network Companies\u201d (TNCs). I will tell the story of the \u201cdeactivation\u201d of one D.C.-based African-American driver with a ten-year-old criminal history from Uber\u2019s platform and, through this story, I will explore the challenges of seeking redress from TNCs through discrimination law, and the need for policies rooted in an understanding of research regarding desistance from crime as well as the racially disparate impact of the criminal justice system.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/25\/2019\/02\/25-3-Getting-Fired-By-An-App.pdf\">Keep Reading Getting Fired By An App<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Examining the exclusion of a class of D.C. workers from two of the most well-known players in the gig economy\u2014Uber and Lyft\u2014reveals the role of local politics in the inability [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":156,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"abstract.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_price":"","_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_header":"","_tribe_default_ticket_provider":"","_tribe_ticket_capacity":"0","_ticket_start_date":"","_ticket_end_date":"","_tribe_ticket_show_description":"","_tribe_ticket_show_not_going":false,"_tribe_ticket_use_global_stock":"","_tribe_ticket_global_stock_level":"","_global_stock_mode":"","_global_stock_cap":"","_tribe_rsvp_for_event":"","_tribe_ticket_going_count":"","_tribe_ticket_not_going_count":"","_tribe_tickets_list":"[]","_tribe_ticket_has_attendee_info_fields":false,"footnotes":"","_tec_slr_enabled":"","_tec_slr_layout":""},"class_list":["post-80","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"ticketed":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/128"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2136,"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/80\/revisions\/2136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.law.georgetown.edu\/poverty-journal\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}