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Uber Eats undercover: Delivering your food for $1.74 an hour (www.thestar.com)
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[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 days ago

It shouldn't be a massive surprise. The whole platform exists as a way to circumvent minimum wage laws for drivers while taking a massive slice of restaurant profits.

No hygiene inspections either, half the places listed aren't even restaurants or takeaways, it's just in somebody's house...