If you have a job providing transportation, then you are on-call, whether you're transporting customers or not. And you should be paid for BEING on-call. This is a standard practice in several industries.
The end of true representative democracy in this country began the moment the courts accepted the "corporations are people / money is speech" arguments. When that happened, governments stopped representing the needs of ordinary people and only listened the needs of billionaires and their lobbyists.
It's taking decades to play out, but it's going to end badly.
Corporations have no business (ha ha) writing labor laws because companies and Labor have completely opposite goals. If your union is letting the company write your union's bylaws, then you have a weak (probably non-existent) union.
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....
*California’s minimum wage is $16 per hour. Starting April 1, most fast-food restaurants must pay their workers at least $20 an hour under new legislation that Newsom signed last year, **but it does not apply to restaurants that have on-site bakeries and sell bread as a stand-alone menu item, *The Associated Press reported.
Panera doesn’t make jet engines, either. WTF does that have to do with wages?
Uber and Lyft now required to pay Massachusetts rideshare drivers $32 an hour ( www.theverge.com )
Most Americans have no idea how anti-worker the US supreme court has become ( www.theguardian.com )
Marxist Financial Advice ( lemmy.ml )
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/16038479...
Gig companies spent $224 million to write their own labor law. The state Supreme Court could throw it out ( calmatters.org )
Lyft and Uber say they will leave Minneapolis after city council forces them to pay drivers more ( apnews.com )
Lyft and Uber said they will cease operations in Minneapolis after the city’s council voted Thursday to override a mayoral veto and require that ride-hailing services increase driver wages to the equivalent of the local minimum wage of $15.57 an hour....
Panera Bread exempt from following California’s new $20 minimum wage law due to relationship with Gov. Newsom: reports ( www.yahoo.com )
cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/12541208...