"Uber Eats delivery driver who lost job wins $40,000 and is reinstated on appeal,"

An Uber Eats delivery driver from Canberra who lost his job due to his poor satisfaction ratings has won about $40,000 on appeal after his case against the company was originally dismissed.

When the driver took the company to the Fair Work Commission because his account on the app had been deactivated, his first application was dismissed.

But on appeal, three members of the commission found he had been unfairly deactivated and, earlier in June, ordered that he be paid $40,768 in lost earnings.

The three members had also ordered that he be reinstated to the app, which occurred in April 2026...

Uber Eats said the average minimum driver satisfaction rating for Canberra was 85 per cent, but over several months the company repeatedly told him his rating had fallen below that percentage...

[The driver said] “One of the major issues right now is ongoing road work – different streets are blocked every day, which makes navigation and timing extremely difficult.”...

The three members [of the Fair Work Commission] said Uber Eats did not have a valid reason for deactivation regarding the driver’s conduct, and that the 85 per cent minimum average satisfaction rating requirement was not reasonable...

He was represented by the Transport Workers’ Union of Australia (TWU) when the Fair Work Commission heard the matter...