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by spywaregorilla 1099 days ago
I feel like I explained that pretty clearly.

The problem is that you cannot easily define people on call. If $33/hr is the average comp for trip time when just one person is working at $18 overall, then they're saying an average worker works 55% of the time. If you add another person who just idles on call for the whole hour, you must now pay the one worker guy $66/hr for his working time.

The game theory here is not going to work.
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text0404 1099 days ago
why is the company allowing someone to sit idly on the app and jack up prices? they're able to determine surge pricing based on demand, surely they can just use that exact same algorithm to determine the number of workers they need and will allow to deliver orders?

simple checks like "did this person do >X number of deliveries in Y amount of time?" should let the company know who to "send home" the exact same as food service and retail currently works. the companies are not forced to allow anyone onto the app, just as businesses are not forced to allow any employee who shows up unscheduled to sit around and collect an hourly wage.

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spywaregorilla 1099 days ago
If you allow the company to "send people home" when there is no work then that is the same thing as allowing them to be waiting for work without getting paid. Because uber is not requiring them to be anywhere or do anything while waiting.
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text0404 1099 days ago
being on call and not working are not the same thing. if my boss tells me i need to be on call for our datacenter from 8pm-4am all week, i expect to get paid during that time regardless of if there's a critical incident or not. it means i have to be tied to my phone, cannot make plans with friends or family, and cannot stray too far from my home in case i need to dial in. same deal here.
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spywaregorilla 1099 days ago
Nothing you just said applies to delivery drivers. They are going to be paid while being "around to work" but not "on call". Or even more specifically this law is saying the ones actually driving need to be paid based on the number of people who are "around to work" regardless of whether they actually drive.
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