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Zohran Mamdani hints he will continue taking on delivery apps like Uber Eats and DoorDash
(www.businessinsider.com)
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Not on board with this, JUST PAY THEM A PROPER WAGE.
Tipping culture is stupid.
Exactly! Set the minimum wage to a reasonable level; mandating tip buttons by law is asinine. The government should be discouraging paying people via tips, not mandating it.
I think part of the problem is also that these delivery drivers aren't wage employees. They're technically self employed/contractors for these companies. Which means that the rules about pay and minimum wage are slightly different
I don't know of a single person who drives their own car for these delivery apps that makes a significant profit after taking into account their milage/gas costs. Many people actually claim a loss if their vehicle isn't very fuel efficient and they aren't being efficient about doing multiple deliveries on one route. The only people I know who make decent money are those that do deliveries with a bike. So while Mamdani can help the situation a little with city ordinances and stuff, what we really need is federal regulation on these companies
In Germany that is called "scheinselbstständig" like "bogus self-employment", a worker who is officially hired as an independent contractor/freelancer, but in reality works like a dependent employee. And that is illegal since it specifically undermines employment laws etc.
Damce monkey dance. Throw money.
While I share the sentiment, he doesn't have control over Federal wage laws. Ensuring that being tipped sufficiently is the norm is about the best option he has to protect tipped wages. I'm not sure if he can somehow ban tipped employment within the city or not. If he can, maybe that'll be planned in the future.
Can cities not set their own? Federal minimum wage is the floor if the local legislation doesn’t set a minimum.
They can. Seattle’s minimum wage is the highest in the country, and we even have mandated that delivery services pay this minimum wage. Now they show “extra fees” to “pay for this” like they didn’t have the money for it before…
Even if prices just go up from inflation, they'll say it's because they're forced to treat people like people.
Annoying but it’s a start in the right direction.
It’s ridiculous anyway that federal minimum wage is still $7.25 🤦♀️🤦♀️
Setting minimum wages is different than outright banning tipping.
It depends on the state. In Nebraska, two of the largest cities are fighting a legal battle over whether they can raise minimum wage to meet a ballot initiative that the unicameral watered down.
taking away their shitty toys has to be done too.