Sandra Parker-Murray has been a union member for 25 years through the Communications Workers of America. Until September, she worked at Avaya, a business communications company, as a service coordinator. The job brought her to Denver from Atlanta in 2008, and it would have taken her to Oklahoma this year if she’d followed the company. Instead, she …
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Popular food delivery service Uber Eats has announced a 5% fee increase on per kilometer rate for deliver people across the country. Before you worry about your pocket, the additional cost increase will have no impact on customers and merchants. Uber Eats says the increase together with the 10% increase that was implemented in April …
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Proposed Department of Labor rules stop short of classifying Uber and Lyft drivers as employees. But the Biden administration’s pro-worker bias has analysts wondering what may come next in the battle over the gig economy and union momentum in the U.S. workforce. In a worst-case scenario, costs could rise as much as 30 percent for …
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The stock prices of Uber, Lyft and DoorDash slid on Tuesday after the Department of Labor announced proposed changes to how workers should be classified. The prospective guidance is intended to “combat employee misclassification,” the federal agency said in a statement. Soon after, Uber’s share price dropped by more than 10% to $24.61, while Lyft’s tanked more than …
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The Seattle Office of Labor Standards announced Thursday it reached a settlement worth more than $3.3 million with Uber Eats for alleged violations of the Gig Worker Premium Pay Ordinance. The ordinance requires food delivery companies like Uber Eats to pay their workers additional compensation called “premium pay” for delivery orders with pick-up and drop-off …
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Shares of Uber and Lyft tumbled on Tuesday, falling by double digits and adding to the market’s gloom, after the US Department of Labor announced a proposed rule change that would change the way that it determines if workers can be classified as employees or independent contractors. The Department of Labor said in a statement that it believes …
Last-mile delivery drivers (like ones working for Uber Eats) likely breathed a sigh of relief Thursday when they heard Amazon halted pilot tests of its six-wheeled robot “Scout” for home deliveries. Bloomberg said Scout wouldn’t make any more deliveries as the experimental project to disrupt last-mile deliveries would be wound down due to slowing sales growth. …
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Uber may have built its hailing empire, in part, by notoriously skirting past local laws and regulations, but at least one state’s finally forcing the company to pay up. On Tuesday, Uber agreed to pay New Jersey $100 million in back taxes over claims the company misclassified thousands of drivers as independent contractors between 2014-2018. That mischaracterization, according …
‘It’s crazy that they know how expensive gas is and still send us $3 orders.’ A DoorDash driver has gone viral after revealing that he does not accept orders that pay under $10. In a TikTok video with over 511,000 views, user @gigdoctor shows viewers his typical method of accepting orders. This involves waiting for …
Today, we announced the launch of a multi-platform marketing campaign in the U.S. titled “A Neighborhood of Good in Every Order.” This campaign brings to life DoorDash’s mission to grow and empower local economies, and showcases that, while an order may seem like a small thing, when consumers get their goods, local businesses get business, …
