…Hey, $17.50 doesn’t sound too shabby, right? But that calculation doesn’t take into account drivers’ expenses like mileage, taxes, gas, etc. It also doesn’t include tips. A nonprofit labor group told TechCrunch its calculations show the average hourly rate is probably less than $6, based on its reviews of real DoorDash driver pay data. That is …
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Under growing pressure, DoorDash asks drivers how to make things better
After weeks of resistance, food-delivery service DoorDash is acknowledging that not all its drivers are happy with how much they get paid. Citing, “a lot of discussion in the media about our pay model,” DoorDash CEO and co-founder Tony Xu sent an email on Wednesday to its contract delivery drivers, called Dashers, announcing a series …
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New hurdles emerge as food delivery expands into new markets
As food-delivery companies like DoorDash and Louisiana-based Waitr are taking their race for market domination to the far reaches of the U.S. they are struggling to adjust to the nuances of different markets, The Wall Street Journal reports. The challenges they face in smaller cities and suburbs include finding drivers new to the gig economy in a …
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SF Office of Labor Standards Enforcement Will Investigate DoorDash Tipping Policies
For a moment, it seemed like the food delivery app DoorDash would get away largely unscathed over allegations that it was pocketing its workers’ tips. Now, with an official investigation and a tech worker boycott, there’s a growing problem for the company over its tipping policies. Last month, DoorDash — along with other food and goods …
Waitr Delivery Drivers Say They’re Being Screwed, Too
Two drivers have filed a class-action lawsuit against their employer, Waitr Holdings, Inc., alleging the company violated the Fair Labor Standards Act by failing to meet minimum wage requirements. The suit also claims that some drivers had been misclassified as contractors while performing the work of employees. The suit, which was submitted late last month …
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Waitr drivers sue in federal court over wages
Two Waitr drivers filed a federal lawsuit alleging the food delivery app company violated federal labor laws by not paying them minimum wage and overtime. …The lawsuit alleges Waitr misclassified some drivers as independent contractors and didn’t pay them minimum wage for all the hours they worked or overtime when they worked more than 40 …
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Waitr Takes a Bite Out of the Third-Party Delivery Market, One Small City at a Time
A brief history lesson: When Walmart first became successful enough to expand outside its home state of Arkansas in the 1960s, the company didn’t immediately barrel into heavily populated coastal cities like New York or Los Angeles. Instead, it opened locations Missouri and Oklahoma — neighboring states but not exactly the epicenter of commerce. Walmart …
4 Things You Need To Know About Grubhub Plaintiff’s Reply Brief
Grubhub squared off with a former driver, Raef Lawson, in the nation’s first-ever gig economy misclassification trial in late 2017, leading to a victory for Grubhub in February 2018. Things took a turn for the worse in April 2018 when the California Supreme Court dropped a bombshell and changed the misclassification standard with its infamous Dynamex decision, which ushered in the …
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Lyft lays out financial risks associated with reclassifying drivers
In Lyft’s S-1 this morning, the company laid out the potential consequences for converting its drivers from independent contractors to W-2 employees. This, of course, has been an ongoing conversation within the gig economy. Those who work as 1099 contractors can set their own schedules, and decide when, where and how much they want to work. For employers, …
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Lawsuits allege gig-economy workers fall victim to Checkr’s artificial intelligence
…Since its founding in 2014, Checkr has become a darling of gig-economy giants like Uber and Lyft thanks to the speed of its services. In a press release last April announcing a $100 million influx of cash from investors, the company boasted that it processes more than 1 million background checks each month for more …