Evaluation of Uber's Legal Exposure for the conduct of its Driver's

Interoffice Memo
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Re: Evaluation of Uber’s Legal Exposure for the conduct of its Driver’s
In good faith and with due respect to the Uber service provider, the agency needs to address some of the pertinent and critical issues with the potential of making the firm perform its operations in line with the law of the Corporate Governance.
The Fundamental Principles of the agency are as below.
Actual express authority. In regards to this principle, there will be an explicit written agreement between Uber and the drivers to participate in a certain activity (Davis, 2015). For instance, giving directives to drivers to pick and drop the customers at a certain designated location.
The principle of apparent authority. This principle occurs when there is an agreement with the third party who is the customer and not the agent. The agent is obliged to respect the directive from the principal because he has an apparent authority (Edelman & Geradin, 2015). For example, if the principal with an apparent authority orders the agent not to take a given route due to dilapidated road condition, the driver has a sole responsibility to obey that directive.
The principle of ratification. This principle is implemented when there is a vacuum in authority, but the principal agrees to contract once he learns about it. This ratification binds the principal (Hall & Krueger, 2015). For instance, if the if the driver has no authority to drop the customer, but he drops them anyway, the ratification contract is binding if the Uber Company agrees to it upon l...