In the context of the Pizza Hut layoffs, the California franchises and its customers will rely on third-party delivery apps like Uber Eats, GrubHub and DoorDash for deliveries.
Same product. Same wage rules. Very likely its the same staff, as plenty of these folks hustle between employers as freelance delivery workers. But now PizzaHut accountants get to pretend they don't know how much a pizza delivery is going to cost month-to-month.
Uber comes in, ignores local laws, runs cabs out of business by running a huge debt financing scheme while also doing illegal shit. They build a monopoly. Then they cut wages, increase prices once there's no competition. They do more illegal exploitation shit. Keep running on debt, making no money for years. Just bullying and grinding their way into this position. The end result is that they can now upcharge you for a service you were already getting. Now instead of restaurants and grocers delivering food, you get to pay extra for someone else to do it. Then those workers lose their job and go work for Uber, who will pay them less.
Capitalist efficiency is putting as many businesses in between you and what you want/need as possible. Then cutting your wages so that you can't afford the services you're providing. All so some frat bro in Austin or San Fran can become a god.
Now instead of restaurants and grocers delivering food, you get to pay extra for someone else to do it. Then those workers lose their job and go work for Uber, who will pay them less.
Is Uber exempt from the wage laws? I assumed PizzaHut would simply be outsourcing the cost to Uber, creating a surcharge for their food that doesn't appear on their advertised price. They get to tell their investors that they cut costs without actually changing their business model.
Capitalist efficiency is putting as many businesses in between you and what you want/need as possible.
More businesses means more growth! More growth means more investment! More investment means more profits! No, I won't explain how or why. This is Econ 101, dummy. Do your own homework.
There was a big vote about it in California in 2020: whether or not app-based jobs counted as employees and had to be given minimum wage protections. Uber spent record amounts of money on it and the hogs in Southern California need their treats so it went down in flames.
Also those ads Uber spent all that money on did their best to completely flip the issue around and portrayed the minimum wage laws as some kind of attack on the gig workers. After the proposition passed there were a bunch of I-regret-my-vote stories like after Brexit.
Maybe - if the minimum wage law in question only applies to restaurant employees, or employees generally, as Uber eats drivers are independent contractors, not employees.
Same product. Same wage rules. Very likely its the same staff, as plenty of these folks hustle between employers as freelance delivery workers. But now PizzaHut accountants get to pretend they don't know how much a pizza delivery is going to cost month-to-month.
Uber comes in, ignores local laws, runs cabs out of business by running a huge debt financing scheme while also doing illegal shit. They build a monopoly. Then they cut wages, increase prices once there's no competition. They do more illegal exploitation shit. Keep running on debt, making no money for years. Just bullying and grinding their way into this position. The end result is that they can now upcharge you for a service you were already getting. Now instead of restaurants and grocers delivering food, you get to pay extra for someone else to do it. Then those workers lose their job and go work for Uber, who will pay them less.
Capitalist efficiency is putting as many businesses in between you and what you want/need as possible. Then cutting your wages so that you can't afford the services you're providing. All so some frat bro in Austin or San Fran can become a god.
Is Uber exempt from the wage laws? I assumed PizzaHut would simply be outsourcing the cost to Uber, creating a surcharge for their food that doesn't appear on their advertised price. They get to tell their investors that they cut costs without actually changing their business model.
More businesses means more growth! More growth means more investment! More investment means more profits! No, I won't explain how or why. This is Econ 101, dummy. Do your own homework.
There was a big vote about it in California in 2020: whether or not app-based jobs counted as employees and had to be given minimum wage protections. Uber spent record amounts of money on it and the hogs in Southern California need their treats so it went down in flames.
Truly ghoulish
Also those ads Uber spent all that money on did their best to completely flip the issue around and portrayed the minimum wage laws as some kind of attack on the gig workers. After the proposition passed there were a bunch of I-regret-my-vote stories like after Brexit.
Maybe - if the minimum wage law in question only applies to restaurant employees, or employees generally, as Uber eats drivers are independent contractors, not employees.