It’s worse. They aren’t employees. They are independent contractors who in many cases assume all liability and have to pay their own payroll taxes. Most aren’t reporting it to their insurance company, much less thinking about retirement and healthcare. It only really works as a temporary side gig.
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ninjan@lemmy.mildgrim.com 1 year ago
It does, but the thinking here is that the dasher basically loses money taking no tip orders. Which in my Nordic mind is a fucked up business model. A living wage should be the minimum requirement.
phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
zeluko@kbin.social 1 year ago
Under EU-Law you might not fall under independent contractor because most of the income and how you do your job is dictated by a single company.
You automatically fall under regulations for employers and get those protections too. Company that try to do this have to tread very carefully not to fall into that.phillaholic@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I was speaking for Americans. Companies like Door Dash are practically experiments in avoiding labor laws .
ignotum@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Get a minimum amount of compensation for doing a job? Do you hear yourself? That’s madness!
scarabic@lemmy.world 1 year ago
A fine idea. Sadly, no one in that restaurant is being paid a living wage. It ain’t just the drivers.
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
Look at the socialist over here guys, over here in America we let our children go without lunch if they can’t afford it. How else will they learn that they need to be a productive member of society?
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Frankly, I wouldn’t want to live under some authoritarian healthcare system that no longer allowed me the freedom to weigh my options between crippling debt and death… Variety is the spice of life!
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech 1 year ago
That’s the true freedom we get to have. I hear in the UK and Canada they sometimes have to wait in line! Here I get prompt care with my hundreds of thousands of dollars I pay. Now that’s service.
poweruser@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Don’t have to wait in line if you can’t afford to go in the first place Taps head
TheLowestStone@lemmy.world 1 year ago
That’s right, and the poor grades and stunted growth they’ll experience as a result of that hunger will build character.
WhatAmLemmy@lemmy.world 1 year ago
Frankly, I wouldn’t want to live under some authoritarian healthcare system that no longer allowed me the freedom to weigh my options between crippling debt and death… Variety is the spice of life!