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In California though an issue with your "micros-shifts" is that California State Laws would apply things like call in pay for this and would also have to pay mi
by twobeararms 6y ago
In California though an issue with your "micros-shifts" is that California State Laws would apply things like call in pay for this and would also have to pay minimum hours for an employee showing up for a short shift. If an employee gets called in to do 30 minutes of work, the company has to pay the employee at least a certain amount of hours I think it's 2 or 4. So that micro shift of a 10 minute ride, Uber/Lyft would have to pay them 2-4 hours wages at a minimum. So the micro-shifts wouldn't work with current state laws.
https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/wage-and-hour-laws/state-wage-and-hour-laws/california/hours-worked/ https://www.employmentlawhandbook.com/wage-and-hour-laws/sta...
- lokar 6y agoThat seems like a reasonable thing to change in the law
- jawns 6y agoYeah, I would much rather see lawmakers recognize that ridesharing workers are employees, and change the law to accommodate micro-shifts, than to say that because micro-shifts go against existing law, ridesharing workers can't possibly be employees. That said, there is certainly a good reason for minimum-length shifts and on-call payments in other industries, so I'm willing to acknowledge that striking the right balance that protects workers across the board might be difficult.