app-based workers

Amazon, facing suit over use of driver tips, launches driver tipping feature

Amazon this week revealed a new way for customers to thank their delivery drivers — but those drivers could be due for an apology too.

On Wednesday, Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) rolled out a feature that will give delivery drivers an additional $5 when a customer tells his or her Alexa device, “Alexa, thank my driver.”

Amazon — not the customer — will make the payment to the driver who delivered that customer’s most recent package. The feature will apply to the first million thank-you’s, and the five...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amazon-facing-suit-over-use-of-driver-tips-launches-driver-tipping-feature

NYC proposes $24 minimum wage for app-based delivery drivers

A little over a year after the New York City Council approved a legislative package aimed at improving working conditions for app-based delivery drivers, city officials are following through on one of the legislation’s key provisions.

Uber Eats (NYSE: UBER), DoorDash (NYSE: DASH) and Grubhub (OCTUS: JTKWY) drivers in the Big Apple could earn a minimum wage of nearly $24 an hour by 2025 if the city approves a proposal passed down by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) on...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/nyc-proposes-24-minimum-wage-for-app-based-delivery-drivers

Mizuho: Little chance of federal gig worker regulation

While Uber (NYSE: UBER), Lyft (NASDAQ: LYFT), DoorDash (NYSE: DASH) and Grubhub (NYSE: GRUB) have significant exposure to potentially dramatic regulatory changes to the employment classification of the drivers critical to their operations, Mizuho Securities USA is not ready to issue a sell rating on the companies just yet.

In fact, the investment house, part of Japan-based Mizuho Securities, a wholly owned subsidiary of Mizuho Financial Group, believes there is upside to Uber and Dash and little...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/mizuho-little-chance-of-federal-gig-worker-regulation