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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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 …
…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 …
A Philadelphia-area restaurant chain claims that Grubhub, the online food delivery and takeout platform, has “stolen” millions of dollars from small businesses by charging them for “sham telephone orders,” according to a proposed class-action lawsuit. The suit, filed in federal court by a pair of Tiffin Indian food restaurants, alleges that Grubhub has charged commissions …
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 …
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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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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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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