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Uber launched a new feature on Friday that lets customers return purchased items without leaving their home. The new returns feature, which is accessed through the Uber Eats app, is the latest effort by Uber to add “stickiness” to its app by offering services that extend beyond its core ride-hailing and delivery businesses. There are…
“Cheer IRS’s delay of Congress’ ugly rule socking the gig economy — but it should die entirely” Joe Biden talks a good game about making the wealthy pay their “fair share” of taxes and building the economy “from the bottom up and the middle out,” but his actions often sock the little guy instead. Like…
“Team Biden is using the IRS to attack the gig economy” Sorry, hipsters. A recent tweet says it all. “Sam Bankman-Fried: I don’t know where $10 billion went. The Pentagon: We don’t know where $2.2 trillion went. The IRS: You just sent $601.37 don’t forget to report it.” The Biden administration is recruiting 87,000 IRS agents,…
“Tech’s slow-motion crash is now Mayor Eric Adams’ problem” Not even a week after Facebook laid off 871 New York City employees and not even two after Twitter laid off 418 locals, Mayor Eric Adams announced the city’s deficits over the next 3 ½ years are $1.5 billion worse than he projected in July, for a total $13.4…
“UberEats quietly slashes orders for ‘walkers’ who deliver on foot” Uber Eats is quietly slashing the ranks of a little-known segment of its food-delivery workers — those who deliver orders on foot. The ride-hailing giant’s “delivery walker” food service has existed for at least five years worldwide in large cities like New York, Chicago, Los…
“#Uber to provide pension plans for UK drivers” Uber said it would start rolling out its pension plan to all eligible drivers in the United Kingdom, months after the ride-hailing service granted workers’ rights to its drivers in the country. In March, Uber had reclassified its more than 70,000 drivers in Britain as workers following a Supreme…
“#Uber must classify drivers as employees, not contractors: Dutch court” Uber must classify its drivers in Amsterdam as employees rather than contractors, a Dutch court ruled Monday, in a blow to the ride-hailing company’s gig-economy business model. The news follows a similar decision earlier this year in the UK, in which the nation’s supreme court…
“#UPS plans to buy same-day delivery company Roadie” United Parcel Service on Friday announced plans to buy Roadie, a crowd-sourced, same-day delivery company whose major clients include home improvement chain Home Depot. The tie-up comes after key UPS retail customers like Amazon, Walmart and Target built or bought gig delivery services to provide speedy local delivery of everything…
“#Rival apps battle to become NYC’s ‘Airbnb for pools’” As New York bakes in the summer heat, two companies are fighting to become the city’s go-to “Airbnb for pools.” Swimply — a Long Island-based swimming pool-sharing company whose backers include a former Airbnb executive and two Silicon Valley venture capital firms — has held the lead…
“#The truth about Uber Eats, DoorDash and Skip the Dishes” Corey Mintz: It only took a global pandemic to realize that third-party delivery platforms are absolutely terrible for the restaurant industry. We need that recognition to grow to their treatment of workers, too. Corey Mintz is a Winnipeg-based food writer and author of the forthcoming…