Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub are suing for an injunction to stop New York City’s new $18 minimum wage law for food delivery app workers…

  • DreamerOfImprobableDreams@kbin.social
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    1 year ago

    My guess is it’s to offset the lack of other benefits-- health care being a huge one-- that you lose when you sign up to be a gig worker, not a full-time worker.

    And we already have different minimum wages for at least one industry: servers at restaurants. The economy isn’t going to collapse if we put gig workers in their own category, too.