Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub are suing for an injunction to stop New York City’s new $18 minimum wage law for food delivery app workers…
$18/hour is just barely a living wage in NYC. Actual living wage for an adult with 0 children in NYC is about $25.50/hour:
https://livingwage.mit.edu/counties/36061
On top of that you have the challenges specific to these jobs. If you’re on bike, that’s hard work and limits the hours you can do without risking injury. If you’re driving (which is maybe practical in outer boroughs) you’re shouldering all the costs of the vehicle working for a delivery app. Either way that’s way too little after taxes per month, even at $18/hr.
Can’t afford the new minimum wage, but they can afford the lawyers and the lawsuit.
It is sounds almost like a dystopian utopia. And it comes to prove that having such big and influential corporations is only good for their shareholders.
I think the whole subscription model get its birth from the constant desire of those corps to grow infinitely, while leaving the normal people to truly struggle to meet their ends with ever growing expenses.
This is the definition of late stage capitalism. Growth cannot be infinite, but capitalism demands infinite growth unless restrained or check put in place. Ergo, workers are resources to be exploited to the utmost limits of what is possible. Not moral, possible.
If they have to live on foodstamps good that means you are not overpaying. Clearly the model works because they haven’t gone elsewhere yet. /s
Yes, in lights of the housing crisis, and the double digit inflation, I have the feeling that all of them exist so that you can’t afford to really retire early and stuck you in the job market for an eternity, exactly how big corps want you to be. So we are modern day slaves, who don’t own anything (soon even our cars would be on a subscription), our houses are already on this mode.
Lol, I mean it really says something about gig economy when concepts such as “minimum wage” threaten to flat out kill their industry
This tells you all you need to know. Those companies need to be shut down.
But if they get the $18/hr, there’s no need to tip, right? Right?
Tipping culture needs to end anyway. Pay the employees properly.
My social anxiety increased to an all time high when I visited the US. The pressure to tip is real.
Tipped employees make WAY more than minimum wage
My 18 year old with her first job made $130 in 4 hours this week. Minimum wage will never keep up with tipped wages, which is the exact reason that people choose tipped jobs.
MANDATORY tipping should end. Tipping on top of fair wages can and does still exist in most of the world.
No it really shouldn’t. No tipped employees thinks it should
Tipped employee. I like the tips, but it’d be nice if my livable wage was guaranteed from the company and not by the potential gratitude of random strangers.
Work back of house.
Lol I like how you’re first like “no tipped employee wants to lose tips” and when someone chimed in you just immediately dismiss their opinion and tell them to get a different job instead.
Sounds like you wanna keep tipping culture and you’re just trying to justify it however you can.
