OHYAMTB t1_izinhno wrote
Reply to comment by OhBall in Inside the Fight to Pay Food Delivery Workers $23 an Hour by jl2l
Seems like incentive to take longer on a delivery, no?
OhBall t1_izl66ex wrote
Fair point. I think there’d certainly need to be some safeguards in place. But if I drag my feet at work I get reprimanded then fired. If someone is consistently taking longer than the amount of time that traffic should allow for, or receiving complaints, then there could be repercussions there.
And to the point about workers sitting around getting paid despite no deliveries coming in, I’m not entirely sold that people shouldn’t be paid to be on-call. After all if it’s a slow day at a pizzeria the cashier still makes the same amount. Sure they’d have to limit the number of people making deliveries at a given time, but half as many people being paid real wages might be better than twice that many being paid poverty wages and kept on the hook in hopes of a windfall. (I know the person this is replying to didn’t bring this up but I’m just thinking out loud here)
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