Australia is bringing in ‘world first’ minimum pay for food delivery drivers – here’s how it will work

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• Salvo@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  So that explains why MenuLog closed down. “If we are expected to actually pay people to work, our business model is not sustainable”.

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  • ryannathans@aussie.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Menulog as far as I am aware, at least in my area, didn’t have their own drivers. They were the restaurant’s drivers

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• Archangel1313@lemmy.ca ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Canada has already been doing this in some places for over a year now.

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  • dan@upvote.au ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    California is dojng this too, so “world’s first” also confused me. The California version requires Doordash, Uber Eats, etc to pay 120% of the minimum wage for each hour the driver is working (from when they accept an order to when it’s delivered, excluding waiting time).

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  • Zagorath@aussie.zone ⁨2⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    That’s interesting. I wonder why they’re calling it “world first” then. I can think of three main possibilities:

    1. There’s some nuance here in the specifics. Like maybe the Canadian version has minimum pay but not insurance, or vice versa? Or the way the pay rate is set is different?[^1]
    2. That “in some places” caveat you added. “World first” for it to be national, instead of done at the provincial level, maybe?
    3. Sheer bluster. Made up. Not true.

    [^1]: For better, or for worse. For example, maybe in Canada the following is not true: “The deal does not include penalty rates for things such as working late at night and, Veen says, the minimum hourly rate does not apply to time spent waiting between delivery jobs.”

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