Liberals never learn. NYC mandated $15 minimum so most fast food places have installed self ordering kiosks, getting rid of the tellers.
Delivery robot on sidewalk
Posted on 06/24/2023 5:17:32 AM PDT by fluorescence
Starting in July, food delivery workers in New York City will make nearly $18 an hour, as New York becomes the nation's first city to mandate a minimum wage for the app-based restaurant employees.
Delivery apps would be required to pay their workers a minimum of $17.96 per hour plus tips by July 12, rising to $19.96 per hour by 2025. After that, the pay will be indexed to inflation.
It's a significant increase from delivery workers' current pay of about $12 an hour, as calculated by the city's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP).
"Today marks a historic moment in our city's history. New York City's more than 60,000 app delivery workers, who are essential to our city, will soon be guaranteed a minimum pay," Ligia Guallpa, executive director of the Workers' Justice Project, said at a press conference announcing the change.
How exactly apps decide to base their workers' wages is up to them, as long as they reach the minimum pay.
"Apps have the option to pay delivery workers per trip, per hour worked, or develop their own formulas, as long as their workers make the minimum pay rate of $19.96, on average," the mayor's office said, explaining the new rules.
Apps that only pay per trip must pay approximately 50 cents per minute of trip time; apps that pay delivery workers for the entire time they're logged in, including when they are waiting for an order, must pay approximately 30 cents per minute.
New York City's minimum wage is $15. The new law sets app workers' pay higher to account for the fact that apps classify delivery workers as independent contractors, who pay higher taxes than regular employees and have other work-related expenses.
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The higher the min wage goes, the more businesses have to shut down …or, wait a minute, maybe that’s the plan!
When you find yourself in a hole, stop digging.
NYC and other blue cities and states, keep digging and don’t know when to stop. They are the definition of insanity.
Let us look to China for guidance
China with Shanghai as a n example, is experiencing unemployment of young people at an official level of 25%. Many reports say that is not nearly in line with reality. The real unemployment rate is much higher.
The salvation for the unemployed is food delivery. It is easy to get into the business. The present situation is that there are an untold host of food deliverers that can’t make ends meet because there are many, many more deliverers now than there are orders to be delivered.
Some say the people who ordered food delivered are now unemployed and hoping to make a buck making deliveries. So in the present, what was once a defense against against poverty has become a poverty abyss.
This goes back to the government setting a minimum wage. The minimum wage law takes agency away from people to negotiate their own contract. I read a scholarly article on the negative effects of this long ago. The intent was to raise living standards. The result was people at the lowest edge of the employment spectrum lost their jobs because to earn more money you have to produce more value. The Goodwill corporation had to fire all the disabled workers who were refurbishing items intended for sale in Goodwill stores. The people who had no skills could no longer be hired and work their way up in an organization as they learned ways to increase their value. The problem with government getting this power is, power is no fun if you don’t use it. The driving mass of voters, who don’t know what’s good for anyone any more than the politicians scream, “You’ve got this power! Use it! Stick it to the horrible patriarchy running the exploitive tools for production!”
The result of this will be job destruction. BTW, I knew someone doing food delivery. People would complain so they’d get the food for free and he had to pay for it. Also, he was attacked by dogs twice. He stepped through a rotten stair-step and severely hurt himself. He quit. The Door Dash gig is horrible even in our relatively quiet rural setting. I can’t imagine what it would be like in a city setting.
Minimum Wage. All jobs worth less are outlawed. Politicians HATE low wage workers.
Only the strong survive. It’s true the weak companies will close. But someone will replace them. We will always have Resturants to eat at and order from.
The minimum wage is 7.25 an hour. Only poor southern states give that amount to employees.
That should help businesses on the edge and barely making a profit decide to fold.
The wheel barrow business will be a good investment.
>>The higher the min wage goes, the more businesses have to shut down …or, wait a minute, maybe that’s the plan!
I doubt the politicians thought it out much more than “higher wages = more tax money”.
They can all come to NYC.
Liberals never learn. NYC mandated $15 minimum so most fast food places have installed self ordering kiosks, getting rid of the tellers.
Delivery robot on sidewalk
Get the food yourself and save a fortune
I’m a bit surprised they’re that busy (if per trip is going to get 50 cents per minute and those that get paid for down time will get paid 30 cents per minute). Then again, it’s New York City.
Jt’s a big assumption that people will continue to use the service at the same rate they do now if the price goes up.
As drug use and crime have gone up, ordering in has increased immensely as have the thousands of delivery persons shuttling goods from restaurants, fast food places and even retailers. If traffic is not heavy sometimes the number of delievry persons on motorized (mostly electric) bikes can outnumner the cars on some NYC avenues.
One more way to move forward in their goal to destroy small business. Covid didn’t quite do the trick.
Why not just cut to the chase? Mandate all businesses close and everyone gets $20 per hour from the government. That’s equity!!!
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