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Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub sue New York City over $18 minimum-wage law
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this post was submitted on 07 Jul 2023
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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.
What the fuck are you even talking about?
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
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.
Yeah that would be a good solution but not what the law proposes, the problem is the government isn't getting to do the right thing either it's just a knee jerk responce to a new thing existing.