DIRS.INFO The most relevant business & tech news

☆ Working for Doordash and Grubhub increasingly feels like a 9-5. And that may be bad news for the companies.
▼ + stars: | 2024-08-24 | by ( Alex Bitter | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +6 min

Read previewOn weekends, a gig delivery worker in Utah takes out his phone and opens one of three apps to make some extra money as an independent contractor. However, the people doing the work say that things like performance metrics often eat into that flexibility. "It doesn't feel much like I'm on contract," the Utah gig worker told Business Insider. But metrics such as this are just one aspect of delivery gig work that workers say feels like a traditional job. Related storiesFor example, one Chicago delivery worker told BI that he avoids Grubhub due to the app's scheduling feature.

Persons: —, Uber, Grubhub doesn't, Instacart, DoorDash, they're, Grubhub, David Jacobs, Jacobs, there's Organizations: Service, Business, Costco, Walmart, US Department of Labor, Trump, Kogod School of Business, Wall Locations: Utah, Chicago, Seattle

REUTERS/Arnd Wiegmann//File Photo Acquire Licensing RightsSept 28 (Reuters) - A New York state judge on Thursday rejected a bid by Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N), DoorDash Inc and Grubhub Inc to block New York City's novel law setting a minimum wage for app-based delivery workers. The law will require companies to pay delivery workers $17.96 an hour, which will rise to nearly $20 in April 2025. App-based delivery workers are usually treated as independent contractors rather than company employees, so general minimum wage laws do not apply to them. They say city officials based the minimum wage law based on flawed studies and statistics. The companies allege the city's surveys of delivery workers were biased and designed to elicit responses that would justify a minimum wage.

Persons: Arnd, Nicholas Moyne, Moyne, Uber, Daniel Wiessner, Chris Reese, Aurora Ellis Organizations: REUTERS, Uber Technologies, DoorDash Inc, Grubhub Inc, New York, Companies, New York City Department of Consumer and Worker, Thomson Locations: Davos, Switzerland, York, Moyne, United States, Albany , New York

July 6 (Reuters) - Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N), DoorDash Inc (DASH.N) and other app-based food delivery companies filed lawsuits on Thursday seeking to strike down New York City's novel law setting a minimum wage for drivers. The companies filed separate complaints in New York state court claiming the law, which takes effect next week, is based on a misunderstanding of how the food delivery industry works. Relay Delivery Inc also filed a lawsuit in the same court claiming the law will put the New York-based company out of business unless it raises the fees it charges to restaurants. The law will require that drivers be paid $17.96 an hour, which will rise to nearly $20 in April 2025. Reporting by Daniel Wiessner in Albany, New York; Editing by Josie KaoOur Standards: The Thomson Reuters Trust Principles.

Persons: Daniel Wiessner, Josie Kao Organizations: Technologies, DoorDash Inc, Grubhub Inc, DoorDash, Companies, Thomson Locations: New York, York, Albany , New York

Diners said this forced them to pay artificially high prices for meals they ordered elsewhere. In response, the companies said that by accepting the terms of use for their platforms, diners agreed to arbitrate their claims individually and not pursue a class action in court. The diners' claims "are based solely on purchases made directly from restaurants or from non-defendant meal-delivery platforms," Kaplan wrote. Grubhub, Uber Eats, Postmates and their respective lawyers did not immediately respond to requests for comment. Grubhub is owned by Netherlands-based Just Eat Takeaway.com (TKWY.AS), while Uber Eats and Postmates are owned by Uber Technologies Inc (UBER.N).

☆ Domino’s, Pizza Hut and Other Pizzerias Work to Recruit Delivery Drivers
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-31 | by ( Heather Haddon | Photographs Sophie Park For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Pizza-delivery drivers, who helped chains such as Domino’s Pizza Inc. and Pizza Hut boost their sales during the Covid-19 pandemic, have become one of the $45 billion industry’s biggest problems. Chain executives said a shortage of drivers is costing them sales and frustrating customers with long wait times. Rising fuel and car-maintenance costs have made the job less appealing over the past year, workers said, as most drivers need to use their personal vehicles for pizza runs, and some said they deal with crime. Pizza restaurants’ often rigid schedules also make it harder to recruit and retain drivers, some operators said, versus more flexible food delivery apps such as Uber Technologies Inc.’s Uber Eats and Grubhub Inc.

Oct 17 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday gave a boost to Domino's Pizza Inc's (DPZ.N) bid to force delivery drivers to bring a wage lawsuit in private arbitration rather than in court in a case from California that could have major implications for gig economy companies. Business groups have called arbitration a quicker and more efficient alternative to suing in court. Three delivery drivers sued Domino's in California state court in Santa Ana in 2020, accusing the company of violating various wage laws, and the case was subsequently transferred to federal court. Domino's made a motion to send the claims to arbitration, citing agreements that the drivers had signed barring them from suing in court. Domino's then appealed to the Supreme Court.

Search resuls for: "Grubhub Inc"

6 mentions found