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submitted 1 year ago by MicroWave@lemmy.world to c/news@lemmy.world

A first-of-its kind law requiring a minimum wage for app-based delivery workers will take effect after a judge rejected the companies' bid to block it.

Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub won’t be able to get out of paying minimum wage to their New York City delivery workers after all, following a judge’s decision to reject their bid to skirt the city’s new law. The upcoming law, which is still pending due to the companies’ ongoing lawsuit, aims to secure better wage protections for app-based workers. Once the suit settles, third-party delivery providers will have to pay delivery workers a minimum wage of roughly $18 per hour before tips, and keep up with the yearly increases, Reuters reports.

The amount, which will increase April 1 of every year, is slightly higher than the city’s standard minimum wage, taking into account the additional expenses gig workers face. At the moment, food delivery workers make an estimated $7-$11 per hour on average.

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[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 68 points 1 year ago

Remember when minimum wage driver work went up for a vote in California under prop 22 and we still voted against it? Im always so mad every election cycle i feel like everyone is a complete moron working against themselves

[-] hayes_@sh.itjust.works 30 points 1 year ago

Copying my own comment from another thread:

In those workers’ defense, the delivery companies spent hundreds of millions of dollars on a disinformation campaign to trick the public into thinking that voting for 22 was in their own interest.

It’s absurd that it was on the ballot in the first place.

[-] Cheesus@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago

Unfortunately corporate advertising works when it comes to elections

[-] honey_im_meat_grinding@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Is it fair to call people stupid when they're facing a literal corporate propaganda campaign? I'd sooner reach for "corporations are evil" than "people are stupid" in that case. Remember how people used to treat you if you were against the Iraq war? And today, we know that thing was unnecessary and awful. Sometimes powerful people just manage to convince us of things that aren't true.

[-] PatFussy@lemm.ee 13 points 1 year ago

You dont have to always be the victim, dont strip away your obligation for due diligence just because some corporation made a nice commercial.

[-] Buddahriffic@lemmy.world 1 points 1 year ago

It's not one or the other. The corporate propaganda works because people are stupid.

[-] Kolanaki@yiffit.net 2 points 1 year ago

I agree in so far as the human brain is pretty fucking stupid and easily "hacked." Especially when companies literally pay psychologists to get better at brain hacking.

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