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Should cities help uber and lyft drivers earn min wage like in new York?
Should cities help uber and lyft drivers earn min wage
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"Minimum"...that part.
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While I'd support a cap on the number of rideshare drivers on city streets, I do not support a "minimum wage" law for drivers. All a minimum wage law would do is cause a flood of new drivers signing up for "free money." You think things are bad now? Imagine how bad it would be if you had 2-3 times the number of drivers on the streets. Worse traffic + fewer runs = LESS money overall.
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They stopped hiring new drivers in nyc bc of that problem of having to pay their "employees"
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i want to pay less taxes and have more cash in my pocket. imposing a minimum wage would make us employees then we are screwed. more taxes and less cash in my pocket! no thanks. i do uber BECAUSE i want more control over my life and more cash in my pockets. i dont want to earn LESS!
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Well in Canada having an employer reduces your taxes. See here self employed people have to fork over a wopping 9.9% of their net income to the Canadian pension plan for me it was 3k for last year. If you were employed it would be 4.4 your employer would pay half of it.
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Minimum as in a floor. It can be vital because it's possible to zero out or make $5 an hour if you don't know what you are doing or if demand drops sharply.
However a minimum wage will likely kill incentives, trigger a cap on drivers, and/or a minimum performance standard with much lower tolerance on low acceptance/ cancelation rates. Imagine having to do 3 rides an hour or whatever metric they come up with to keep your slot in the market?
To me a minimum wage sounds like a good idea but it would likely hurt higher performing drivers
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Absolutely not! Who wants to suppress wages and make less money? That is the whole purpose of the minimum wage.
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I certainly can't attest to that as I don't live there. That being said, uber does have different policies in different countries. Some countries pax pay the driver cash and drivers pay uber a fee.
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I fail to see the problem here.
The US does the same. If you are self employed you pay what would have been the employers part of your Social Security and Medicare taxes - PLUS your income tax.
I don't support trying to enforce a minimum hourly rate. We aren't employees and don't want to be. But taxi rates are regulated by the government - and precisely for the reasons we see now with Uber and Lyft - too many cars and too low earnings for drivers.
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By definition, if a company takes payment from customers then skim off a percentage before they pay the workers who provide the service to those customers, THEY ARE EMPLOYERS!
Law makers must pass a law that clearly defines what an employer is as stated above.
The only way to go around this law is to NOT take payment from customers but charge drivers a fee to use the app.
That way, drivers will become Uber customers and passengers will truly become the drivers' customers, as it should be!
Law makers must pass a law that clearly defines what an employer is as stated above.
The only way to go around this law is to NOT take payment from customers but charge drivers a fee to use the app.
That way, drivers will become Uber customers and passengers will truly become the drivers' customers, as it should be!
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Incorrect.
I sold investments, mortgages, insurance products, and much much much more where the company collect the $$ and pays the IC a portion of the commission.
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Based on that, a credit card processor would be every businesses employer
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