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Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub are suing for an injunction to stop New York City's new $18 minimum wage law for food delivery app workers..

Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub are suing for an injunction to stop New York City’s new $18 minimum wage law for food delivery app workers…

  • moozogew@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
    010·
    1 year ago

    So if they pass this people will be able to sign onto the app, ignore the deliveries and demand 18 an hour? So they’ll have to start firing anyone that doesn’t accept deliveries when offered and refuse people sign on when there aren’t enough orders to go round, etc… end result making it harder for people to earn by delivering food, making food delivery more expensive, but it strikes a blow against something new so everyone will feel like they’re winning.

      • moozogew@lemmy.fmhy.mlEnglish
        09·
        1 year ago

        I take it you’ve never delivered and don’t understand how the platform works?

        The law change would mean that people can’t do things like multiapp or choose to only do one or two deliveries then stop for a bit, this ruins the flexibility which most people want when choosing to do it

    • buddhabound@lemmy.worldEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      Couldn’t they prorate the hourly rate to account for the time that your actually assigned to an active delivery? That wouldn’t interfere with multi-apping, as a driver would be “on the clock” for their delivery time. It seems like the companies would be able to figure out how to do the right thing if they wanted to.