Jeung has valid motives for bringing the case may not be relevant, because this isn't the first time that someone has brought up the fact that the Yelp Elite program is fraught with legal and ethical weirdness. Jeung appears to be a disgruntled former Elite member who account was actually totally shut down, and who has escalated her anger at the site by getting very litigious. Also, Yelp Elites can be "fired," or have their Elite status revoked, if they fail to meet certain criteria. Yelp Elite members, in a program established nine years ago, are unpaid, volunteer contributors to the site, the same way all user-generated product and business reviews are written across the web, but with the added onus of quotas for their review-writing, and bonus perks for those who do extra work.
#Become yelp elite update
The argument goes like this: Yelp hires Marketing Assistants, referred to as Scouts, to fill out the site in newly launched cities, update business information, and write initial business reviews. Jeung) but with different attorneys last October - was dismissed in February. An earlier suit - filed by the same lead plaintiff (Ms. and filed August 7 in a federal court in Los Angeles, claims that under the Fair Labor Standards Act, Yelp Elite members ought to be paid in line with the rarer Yelp Scouts and Ambassadors are paid to write reviews for the site. People who are such obsessive, prodigious users of Yelp that they gain Elite status and claim firsties on reviewing every food truck and Muni stop, are taking part in a class action lawsuit the second in the last year claiming that they should be paid just like real writers for the site.
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