Doordash has recently found themselves in the same “sinking” boat as Uber and Lyft after being faced with a lawsuit from the San Francisco district attorney over possibly mis-classifying its workers as contractors rather than employees.
The lawsuit is stemming from multiple accusations that the company failed to provide delivery workers with proper financial protection during the pandemic. District Attorney Boudin, stated that calling employees contractors “deprives them of the labor law safeguards to which they are entitled, denying workers minimum wage and overtime pay, unemployment insurance and protection from discrimination, among other things.”
DoorDash, has refuted these claims saying …
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There has been a lot of talk recently about Uber eats potentially combining forces with Grubhub. However, the rumors were officially quelled when European delivery app, Just Eat Takeaway came out of nowhere and made a deal with Grubhub forcing UberEats to drop out.
Just Eat Takeaway acquired Grubhub for $7.3 billion, forming the world’s largest online food delivery company outside of China. This new merger is going to provide some serious competition for both UberEats and the current US market leader, Doordash.
UberEats is already in an unprofitable situation, having lost $313 million last quarter. If they had been …
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Not much good has come out of the Covid-19 pandemic but one new law, pushed into action by Covid-19, could positively change the working landscape for gig workers.
When gig based work started decreasing due to the pandemic and stay at home orders, gig workers found themselves struggling to make ends meet with no financial help in sight. After a few weeks of living under the blight of Covid-19, Uber, Lyft and others started to put together agreements to pay drivers and delivery personnel who missed work because of the virus. Now Seattle is on the cusp of making sick …
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Uber is stepping up and showing that they support the Black Lives Matter movement through offering free Uber Eats deliveries for any order placed with a black-owned restaurant from now until the end of 2020.
"We are committed to supporting the Black community," CEO Dara Khosrowshahi said in a statement. "As a starting point, we will use Uber Eats to promote Black-owned restaurants while making it easier for you to support them, with no delivery fees for the remainder of the year."
Now, when users open their Uber Eats app they will see a new banner announcing this promotion. Users …
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Many states have started to slowly open back up and we have been receiving many inquiries on whether or not it is now safe to take rideshares once again. Based on our research and conversations with many rideshare drivers, we do feel taking an Uber or Lyft is a relatively low risk activity as long as you take the following precautions.
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