Doordash, GrubHub, Uber and Relay lawsuits claim that the $17.96 per hour wage set to start on 12 July would deal blow to business
Doordash, GrubHub, Uber and Relay lawsuits claim that the $17.96 per hour wage set to start on 12 July would deal blow to business
How are they called “tech companies”? Are they not just delivery companies?
Not criticizing, just asking
Calling yourself a tech company gets you more investors
The reality is Uber, grubhub, doordash, etc. are owners of a platform that connects customers to contract delivery services. They don’t directly employ delivery persons. Their product is this platform. This is why they are considered tech companies.
Presumably because they don’t have a single delivery employee. They just provide “tech” that lets drivers and customers find each others.
Of course if those companies were to become responsible for providing a living wage to their “gig workers”, then it becomes harder to still call them mere “tech” companies (and some might argue that an article using that label to describe them is in fact implicitly picking a side in that lawsuit.)
I mean… the law itself is written in such a way that is intentionally ambiguous, and refers to delivery drivers as “workers” (rather than “employees” or “independent contractors”) and refers to the platforms as “third parties”.
They’re not. They’re S&O companies with tech.