Rather than simply hiring their workers as employees or providing fair wages and benefits, DoorDash is asking independent contractors to lobby Congress on their behalf to “help companies explore” ways of maybe, someday, offering access to things like healthcare or paid time off. Instead of taking responsibility, they’re pushing for legislative loopholes that let them keep the flexibility of gig labor while offloading the cost of basic protections.
(Apologies if this is not the right community to post this.)
As far as I know, this is simply a lie.
The government does nothing to prevent a company from offering paid time off and health insurance to independent contractors. Any and all of that could just be written into the contract.
That’s because it’s all bullshit, they want to REMOVE protections and use the very victims to ask Congress for this
The US is “awesome” as always
Large companies are “awesome” as always
I understand that. But typically there is some kind of round about way to sort of make it kind of true from a certain point of view. Companies to that specifically for legal cover.
This is just a plain unmasked lie, which they could be sued over.
It’s probably that they would be paying it without the tax benefits they do for actual employees. So they never bother. In their mind, not getting a tax benefit is the same as banning it. They believe this because they are stupid.
You are correct.
Imagine a world where you enslave a person to the point where they will shill against their own interest.
And when called out for being an idiot, they get indignant and dig in.
That’s about where we are at but every day more people are taking notice.
I don’t have to imagine.
What is the bill they are talking about and what does it actually do?
