Uber and Lyft say they're ending services in Minneapolis over a city-mandated driver pay increase. The city council pushed through the measure to bring driver pay closer to the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour.
The whole gig economy needs to be stamped out. In a capitalist society the role of government should be to protect people from corporations and they’re not doing it.
It’s such an obvious scam as well. “Oh it’s not down to us what our contractors pay their employees!” as if they don’t know exactly how much it takes for them to hire people to do it at minimum wage and then paying somebody else substantially less.
The whole gig economy needs to be stamped out. In a capitalist society the role of government should be to protect people from corporations and they’re not doing it.
It’s such an obvious scam as well. “Oh it’s not down to us what our contractors pay their employees!” as if they don’t know exactly how much it takes for them to hire people to do it at minimum wage and then paying somebody else substantially less.