Getting that pizza delivered could cost $5 to $7 more if the city adopts a new pay rate for delivery-app workers. A controversial proposal by the city Department of Consumer and Worker Protection would hike pay for GrubHub, UberEats, and DoorDash delivery workers far past the $15 minimum wage. Under one plan, deliverers would be …
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When employers misclassify their workers, they deprive them of basic employee protections and benefits, and create an unfair playing field for other law-abiding companies,” Campbell said in a statement. Uber and subsidiary Postmates are currently challenging a California worker classification law similar to the one in Massachusetts, which they say is unconstitutional because it was …
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A former Grubhub driver is set to make $65 after a California judge ruled he was working as an employee, not a contractor, when he made deliveries for the company eight years ago in Los Angeles. The $65 is what Grubhub owes Raef Lawson in minimum wage for his time delivering food through the app …
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A Massachusetts Superior Court ruled Thursday that Grubhub had overcharged for its delivery services early in the pandemic by tacking a credit-card processing fees onto the maximum commission permitted by the state on to-go orders. The decision came in a lawsuit filed against Grubhub by the Massachusetts attorney general’s office in July 2021. The action …
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Dive Brief: Dive Insight: Uber Eats, Grubhub and DoorDash all advocated for the city to cut its proposed base pay to account for so-called multi-apping, or the periods of time when delivery workers are logged in to multiple delivery apps, according to the new rule. The DCWP reduced its proposed total pay by $3.60 and also reduced …
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A New York federal judge on Thursday said Grubhub, Postmates and Uber Eats cannot force restaurant customers to arbitrate their price-fixing claims against the food delivery companies simply because they’ve used the apps in the past, ruling that their arbitration clauses have no relevance to the claims at hand. U.S. District Judge Lewis A. Kaplan denied …
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GrubHub Inc., DoorDash Inc., Postmates Inc. and Uber Technologies Inc.’s Eats platform were hit with a proposed class action Monday in New York federal court alleging diners across the U.S. are being hurt by the monopolistic behavior of the companies behind the nation’s top food delivery apps. Three New York food delivery customers’ suit claims the delivery app …
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At the height of the pandemic, numerous US cities from New York to Las Vegas cracked down on the commission fees food delivery companies charged restaurants. Uber Eats, DoorDash, and Grubhub charged as much as 30% per order. Restaurants saw food-delivery apps as a lifeline when their dining rooms were closed, but they also complained …
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Just Eat Takeaway (AS:TKWY) shares climbed towards the top of the pan-European Stoxx 600 on Monday after analysts at ING said they expect the Amsterdam-listed food delivery service to post strong returns in 2023. In a note to clients, the analysts predicted that Just Eat may report “quite significant profit” this year, citing the impact …
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Giuseppe Marchesini, the owner of a restaurant in Little Italy, is worried about how the alcohol-delivery partnership between the LCBO and Uber Eats will impact his bottomline. He said it is unfair, given that his business and others have not fully recovered from the COVID-19 pandemic. “That’s another competitor and that’s a big competitor,” Marchesini …
