Comment on ‘So immoral’: gig economy workers forced to pay fee to receive their wages

• Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  In California, anyway. There was a bill/measure whatever the hell to make contractors with services like Uber, DoorDash, etc get treated like normal hired employees, so they would have a minimum wage, guaranteed breaks and lunch, and all the other protections offered to employees here.

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  • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    How did they do a vote amongst just them? Was it like through the job?

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    • Kolanaki@yiffit.net ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      It was a measure on the ballot in 2016, I think? Maybe 2020? The same as the more recent one that passed giving restaurant employees a bump up to $21/hour in pay without changing the $16/hour state minimum wage.

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      • MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        Paid shills. Look inti the california case further, and you’ll see the companies were lobying their asses off to twist reality. Including several cases where they paid actors or their contractors to puppet the speaking points in ads and on social media.

        They didn’t convince the workers, they only had to spend the money to convince the general public.

        It worked.

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      • Iheartcheese@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        I see.

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  • MadBob@feddit.nl ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    The story in the article is from the UK.

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  • vladmech@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    Woosh

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