Uber plans millions in back pay

Uber Technologies said it underpaid its New York City drivers by improperly calculating the company's share of passenger fares, and will pay out an average of $900 per driver in restitution, costing tens of millions of dollars.

The back pay could run at least $45 million, based on the approximately 50,000 drivers the Independent Drivers Guild says work in New York City.

The ride-hailing company previously has misled drivers about how much they could make and miscalculated fares. In this case, Uber was taking its cut of fares based on the pretax sum, instead of after taxes and fees as stated in its terms of service.

The issue also was raised in a lawsuit against San Francisco-based Uber filed by the New York Taxi Workers Alliance. In March, Uber acknowledged that it had underestimated drivers' pay in Philadelphia by millions of dollars.

'We are committed to paying every driver every penny they are owed - plus interest - as quickly as possible,” Rachel Holt, Uber's head of U.S. operations, said in a statement. 'We are working hard to regain driver trust, and that means being transparent, sticking to our word, and making the Uber experience better from end to end.”