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Delivery workers won a mandated raise from NYC. Now they say the apps figured out a way to undermine it
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So when the living fuck are judges going to start punishing companies for breaking the Spirit of the Law instead of the Letter of the Law?
This is something that absolutely infuriates me about American law. A law can be perfectly fucking clear about what it means but as long as you wiggle around specific wording, then you're not "breaking" it.
It's absolute fucking bullshit, and every company does this with every fucking law.
Why do discrimination laws mean jack shit? At Will Employment, where they can fire you for a bunch of indiscretions they made up and documented, and definitely not because they hate the fact that you're gay or brown or old.
The US is just an endless fucking end-run around every fucking law because not a single fucking judge has the balls to hand down judgment based on breaking the spirit of the law as opposed to the letter of the law.
This "letter of the law" bullshit is literally why we're even having to have a conversation about whether or not Trump is eligible for Presidency. He clearly fucking is not, but because the US needs to have us quibble over every single fucking word of every law every time a rich person gets their fucking fee-fees hurt, we're having a conversation about whether he should be allowed instead of just fucking barring him from it and being god damned done with it.
So sick of this shit, it's so fucking easy to not let these companies get away with this shit and it's absolutely dropping this letter of the law bullshit that allows every law to be re-interpreted literally fucking endlessly.
You are correct.
I will say that these gig economy businesses are some of the worst companies to work for. They do not exist outside of the exploitation of their workforce. The people they depend on to even make that business model work, they depend on sucking every possible cent from. And if the law changes to force them to give some of that money to their exploited workforce, then the business will change to find a way to exploit them again. This will continue until it costs them more money to be cruel then it does to be human. The only way that happens is if drivers find other jobs, and if the rest of us stop ordering.
Hear ye, hear ye