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DoorDash, UberEats, and Grubhub sue New York City over a new $18 an hour minimum wage for delivery driver (www.businessinsider.com)
submitted 1 year ago by L4s to c/technology
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Some drivers at DoorDash and Grubhub supported the New York City pay bump, but others say it will actually mean less pay and freedom.

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[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

With the per-delivery model, the drivers have the option to pick and choose which jobs to accept.

Being speculative, I believe the scare tactic being used is: the driver can be assigned very unattractive deliveries without the power to refuse. As someone that does not do deliveries for any of these companies and periodically viewed posts from /r/doordash, I can only guess that this will hurt a smaller percentage of drivers that formulate a metagame to maximize their delivery income.