Originally published at: What’s Missing From Coverage of the Massive DoorDash Worker Settlement - TPM – Talking Points Memo
This op-ed is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last week, New York City announced a groundbreaking $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash. The largest such resolution in city history, the case involved over 260,000 workers who were paid late and in some cases not paid at all. It also raises the question: If…
DC successfully sued DoorDash in 2020 for fraud over worker tips and compensation
But they’re getting their revenge by supporting a bill that threatens DC’s home rule
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The pursuit of wage and hour enforcement cases by the U.S. Department of Labor declined by 97% during the first year of the current Trump administration.
Imagine that! And from the man whose complete business model was stiffing contractors and bankrupting businesses, no less.
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I often ask myself, “Self, is there any off switch to Putin’s cock-holster’s* stable genius-ness?”
“No, you twit,” I answer. "Everything he does results in the worst possible outcome. Every. Fucking. Time. (Or, as Rick Wilson sagely coined, “ETTD: Everything Trump Touches Dies.”)
*h/t Stephen Colbert
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Lyft and Uber, among other companries, were mandated by a new state law in California to classify their “contractors” as employees. Then with about a hundred million dollars’ funding they launched a voter initiative that declared these employees were still contractors and fooled the state electorate into approving it. End of rational classification of Lyft/Uber employees.
Punishment for white collar crimes are way too mild.
Take the underpayment and divide by the minimum wage to determine the minimal jail sentence for company executives - that would definitely catch their attention.
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