A Seattle City Council law designed to help app-based food delivery workers has backfired.
loved to quip that the most terrifying words in the English language are: “I’m from the government, and I’m here to help.”delivery workers has backfired, cutting some workers’ pay in half and driving others out of the industry entirely. law did not go into effect until January of this year.
As a result of the rapid price increases, many consumers simply deleted their apps, and the demand for app-delivered food quickly plummeted. Instead of raising app-delivery driver pay, the law lowered it.. “Assuming that you are working constantly, then yes, you’re going to be making that much money. But that’s not what’s happening right now. Because people are not ordering as much anymore. The tips are going down because they think we’re making all this money.
Drivers who were making $931 a week under the old system are now making just $464 under the new law, thanks to the decline in orders. Many are just quitting altogether. “I didn’t get an order for, like, six hours, and I was done,” Tony Illes, now a former Uber Eats driver, told
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