LAKE CHARLES, LA (KPLC) – It’s been about a month since two lawsuits have been filed against the food delivery service, Waitr. The two drivers, Jualeia Halley and Heather Gongaware, are a part of a much larger group of over 100 drivers claiming they weren’t properly paid by Waitr, according to their attorney Carter Hastings. …
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The CEO of Waitr Holdings brushed off the threat of lawsuits from the company’s driver network, the like of which have dogged Uber and other companies in recent years in the “gig economy,” where people typically operate under short-term contracts or on freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs. …The dozens of labor act lawsuits …
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One of the hottest Y Combinator startups just raised a big seed round to clean up the mess created by Uber, Postmates and the gig economy. Catch sells health insurance, retirement savings plans and tax withholding directly to freelancers, contractors, or anyone uncovered. By building and curating simplified benefits services, Catch can offer a safety net for the future of …
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Typing out your order on Mrsool is only the start of what’s made the Saudi delivery app more popular in the kingdom than Uber Technologies Inc. and Facebook Inc. The experience that follows recreates the bargaining of a traditional market. Once the customer picks out items from a store or restaurant, couriers bid to run the errand, offering a …
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Uber Eats rolled out its new fees structure this week, and most people are confused about what the new fees mean. Instead of a booking fee for each order, Uber is now splitting up its fee into a delivery and service fee, and adding a small order fee of $2 when your order total is less than …
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Food delivery service Waitr has been slapped with a lawsuit from former and current drivers claiming the Louisiana-based company paid them below the federal minimum wage. This is the second such lawsuit filed against Waitr in less than two months, according to the Daily Advertiser. In the most recent lawsuit, a driver claims she received a …
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…That DoorDash’s pay model—which has been in place since 2017—is still causing “confusion” among workers and indeed, even customers, is alarming. However, a survey of interviews with four current and former dashers as well as three former DoorDash corporate workers, emails to the company’s contractors, past marketing materials, screengrabs from a private dasher group on …
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Hungry Plymouth people wanting meals delivered to their homes today may end up having to go to the takeaway – because the city’s UberEats riders are being urged to “strike” in pursuit of better pay. About 30 of Plymouth’s Uber Eats delivery workers have been encouraged to stop working today (Friday, March 15, 2019) as …
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The food-delivery app company Waitr has been hit with a second lawsuit by current and former drivers, alleging the Lafayette-based company violated federal labor laws by not paying them minimum wages. The federal lawsuit was filed last week by driver Autumn Montgomery in U.S. District Court in New Orleans for unpaid minimum wages, overtime pay, damages, penalties, attorney fees, expenses, and injunctive relief under the …
On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash has been under fire as of late for its practices around paying drivers. In an email to drivers today, obtained by TechCrunch, DoorDash said drivers received an average of $17.50 or more per hour on deliveries in 2018. That figure, of course, does not take into account cost of mileage, payroll taxes …
