Check out the official blog from Uber to get the latest news, announcements, and things to do in California. Delivery startups Instacart and Doordash were found to have been using tips Currently, startups save millions of dollars annually by classifying drivers as contractors rather than employees. “$21 isn’t a living wage for any category of worker in the San Francisco metro area except a single adult or two adults living together,” the group “We think it’s a losing strategy,” he wrote. Uber and Lyft have said they would support a $21-an-hour minimum wage for drivers in California, a move that would be a significant change for two of the biggest gig-economy companies. “The voters of California won’t stand for billionaires allowing their workers less rights than Wal-Mart employees.”Gig economy companies that were once seen as an innovative addition to the labor market have come under growing scrutiny for how they treat their workers. Drivers are rightly suspicious of any promises these companies make because they’ve been burned so many times before.”Cyrus Farivar is a reporter on the tech investigations unit of NBC News in San Francisco.Gig economy companies that were once seen as an innovative addition to the labor market have come under growing scrutiny for how they treat their workers.Get breaking news alerts and special reports.
OAKLAND, Calif. —The California Public Utilities Commission, the state government body responsible for licensing and regulating some transportation companies including Uber … Uber Chevron Arrow A chevron arrow that was created with the Uber Move font Uber link glyph OAKLAND, Calif. —The California Public Utilities Commission, the state government body responsible for licensing and regulating some transportation companies including Uber and Lyft, officially For now, it is not clear what practical difference this ruling defining drivers as employees makes, given the companies’ longstanding resistance to re-classifying the backbone of their workforce.“We have long maintained that Uber and Lyft are misclassifying and exploiting their drivers, and we intend to prove that in court,” Meiling Bedard, a spokesman for San Francisco City Attorney Dennis Herrera, said in an email. “If they were serious about raising standards for drivers, why wouldn’t they have done it before now?
Gavin Newsom, a Democrat, has not said whether he would sign the bill if it reaches his desk.On Thursday afternoon, both Uber and Lyft announced that they were each putting $30 million into a fund seeking to put a proposition on the state ballot in 2020 should their efforts to drastically revise AB5 fail during this current legislative session.“While we continue to advocate for this progressive framework, circumstances are forcing us to plan for legislative inaction by laying the groundwork for this initiative,” the company said in a statement emailed by spokesman Davis White.Similarly, Adrian Durbin, Lyft’s director of policy communications, said in a statement that the company is pushing it’s “first-of-its kind industry-wide sectoral bargaining.”“We remain focused on reaching a deal, and are confident about bringing this issue to the voters if necessary,” he said.In response, Lorena Gonzalez, a Democrat from San Diego who authored AB5, slammed the companies’ efforts.“California has a long history of Wall Street billionaires pumping a fortune into ballot measures to further erode the middle class for their benefit,” she said in a statement.
However, this four-page summary does not fully explain its analysis, and to date, the company has not provided a copy of the full report.Similarly, Lyft spokesman CJ Macklin sent a brief statement saying that the “CPUC’s presumption is flawed,” and declined to explain further.For years, both Lyft and Uber have said that if they are forced to reclassify gig workers as employees that such a change would have an adverse effect on their profitability, according to their latest annual reports submitted to the Securities and Exchange Commission in For years, the rival companies have touted the ad-hoc work schedule as an attractive perk for drivers. In their mandatory “Lawmakers need to hear that flexible work is important to you,” the Wednesday email from Uber However, many Uber drivers on one online message board Many labor activists said that the new minimum wage was not enough. The news and stories that matter, delivered weekday mornings.Get breaking news and insider analysis on the rapidly changing world of media and technology right to your inbox.A driver with the Lyft and Uber decals on his vehicle cruises Hollywood, California on Feb. 21, 2019. However, one of the major downsides has been that drivers are on the hook for incurring numerous work expenses, including gas, car maintenance, insurance and more.“The pressure is escalating on Uber and Lyft and other companies that are thumbing their nose at the law,” she said. But with both companies in search of profit, drivers say Uber and Lyft have been taking a bigger portion of each ride’s fee, leading to protests from drivers and action from politicians.The new pay structure would ensure drivers make $21 an hour, but only when they have a rider in their car or are on their way to pick up a passenger.The rideshare giants have urged supporters to “fix” For now, Gov.