DoorDash Agrees to $131.5M Settlement for Shortchanging Workers

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> “Simply put, we screwed up,” the San Francisco-based company said in a statement. “Our mistakes meant some Dashers were underpaid or paid late. While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay.” DoorDash said its median payout will be about $48.

This is a pretty easy payment for DoorDash to make to stay in the city's good graces.

It doesn't change the fact that these services are inherently an unsustainable business model and exploitative by nature.

> It doesn't change the fact that these services are inherently an unsustainable business model and exploitative by nature.

"The Mamdani administration also said it is developing software that would allow workers to directly submit complaints to the city and will require companies to self-report their data so that the city’s worker protection agency can find real-time discrepancies in pay."

This effort, and this software rolled out to other cities, should help kill exploitative business practices in this context. We can leverage automation and regulation together to defend against economic exploitation.

“You can just do things.”

https://archive.today/YxA1U

Evidence of wage theft being a core principle behind Silicon Valley gig economy profitability?

Or evidence of uppity liberals overstepping their bounds when it comes to free market association of workers and employers?

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