Throughout COVID, app-based workers risked exposure to keep us safe & fed. By illegally misclassifying workers, companies deprive them of basic protections: minimum wage, sick leave & overtime. To protect workers & enforce state law, we filed a civil action against Doordash.https://twitter.com/nytimes/status/1415758092319567877 …
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Replying to @chesaboudin
DoorDash drivers are not employees. They are contractors. One of the perks of being a contractor is flexible hours. If they are moved to employees they will work in 8-hour shifts. The model doesn't work. DoorDash will just leave SF.
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Replying to @michelletandler @chesaboudin
No reason employees need to work 8-hour shifts. What do you think the impact would be if they were classified as hourly employees who “punched a clock” when they drove?
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1. Higher delivery fees 2. DoorDash ‘locking out’ drivers in periods of supply/ demand mismatch 3. Reduced personal freedoms of drivers while ‘online’ 4. Future legal complexities around use of personal vehicles as business assets
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Replying to @ConnorJQuirk @devahaz and
I think there are more elegant solutions - e.g. using a consistent calculation, require companies to report avg. & variance hourly earnings of drivers, then governments can require avg earnings to be above
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Replying to @ConnorJQuirk @devahaz and
Would preserve many of the existing benefits around flexibility, while instituting some basic protections for workers
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Good stuff
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