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 Prudential Pulse survey finds large percentages of millennials, gen Z and women struggle with finances. The result is more gig work… Nearly half of millennials agree or somewhat agree with the statement “I regularly run out of money and have to rely on credit cards or family for financial support.” Please consider Generational Gap Grows: …
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DoorDash has expanded its safety toolkit, rolling out new features that will automatically check in with delivery workers and provide easier ways to report incidents that could impact the safety of both its customers and employees. As the first line of defense, the company has introduced SafeChat: an automated message monitoring system that detects any offensive …
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Food delivery drivers for DoorDash (DASH) – Get Free Report and Uber’s (UBER) – Get Free Report UberEats were undoubtedly some of the pandemic’s heroes. As local restaurants coped with the transition from sit-in dining to door-to-door delivery, both business and consumer alike came to rely on the stalwart people braving what felt like the volatile outdoors to make sure we …
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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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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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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 …
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 …
Gopuff has begun instantaneous payments for its U.S. delivery drivers as part of a significant update to the convenience delivery platform. Similar to Grubhub’s recent announcement that it had expanded instant cash out options for its delivery drivers, Gopuff has partnered with Stripe to give its U.S. delivery partners a similar option. To be eligible for instant …
