DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub sue New York City over a new $18 an hour minimum wage for delivery drivers
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Some drivers at DoorDash and Grubhub supported the New York City pay bump, but others say it will actually mean less pay and freedom.

Some drivers at DoorDash and Grubhub supported the New York City pay bump, but others say it will actually mean less pay and freedom.

  • fiat_lux
    1•1 year ago

    I don’t consider what a company wants to be a true dependency. It’s a strong and valid desire to prevent unnecessary financial loss, but it’s not a requirement with only one possible solution.

    If gig SaaS companies are innovative enough to come up with a way to allow remote commitment flexibility in the first place, they’re creative enough to come up with ways of preventing drivers abusing that system without scheduling them in fixed time blocks in this day and age. Threatening a schedule is just the easy way out and a scary enough threat to drivers to get them to side with DoorDash.

    • BraveSirZaphod
      1•1 year ago

      I guess ultimately, it’s a question of why they would bother to put in time, effort, and money into developing procedures that offer them no real benefit.

      Ideally, I’d rather see the development of a formalized gig worker legal status, but that would require the government to be capable of thought.