Comment on Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour
theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks agoThe problem with that law is many that qualify to deliver now, wouldn’t if they were considered employees, and a lot of homeless/near homeless deliver instead of begging.
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That argument is just a regurgitation of the propaganda that these people bought into. You can’t possibly know what would have happened because the law was voted down. I think that if those companies severely restricted the number of drivers they allowed, quality of service would decline and they would end up losing market share. In the end, there probably are somewhat fewer drivers, but those drivers are guaranteed to be making at least minimum wage plus mileage and access to health insurance.
theonlytruescotsman@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
No, that’s my personal experience and prediction knowing how shit corporations are. Yeah, in an idealized world we’d all be w2 workers, but there also wouldn’t be homeless and there’s be easy to enter programs to make money if you are.
But until those programs are in place you’re risking the jobs of tens of thousands of people without other options. For no reason.