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> Are temp workers for DoorDash et al. paid the new fast food minimum wage when performing contract work for fast food businesses in California? Yes and no, if
by csa 3y ago
> Are temp workers for DoorDash et al. paid the new fast food minimum wage when performing contract work for fast food businesses in California?
Yes and no, if my understanding of the current CA gig economy is correct.
They will be guaranteed $20 an hour (edit: plus a 20% premium?) while picking up and delivering, but earn nothing while waiting to receive an order to work on.
This may seem bad on the surface, but many delivery folks I have spoken to value the flexibility of not having to be on someone else’s schedule.
- altairprime 3y ago$20/hour regardless of whether it’s Best Buy or McDonalds, though?
- csa 3y agoGood question. Definitely not Best Buy. There is only an increase for fast food workers and certain health care workers. Not sure whether food delivery gig work will fall under “fast food”. Probably not. Note that I think most of the CA people make 19+ an hour for “pick up and delivery” already. $16 an hour plus $3.20 for the gig bump plus mileage (and tax write offs).
- altairprime 3y agoSo, then, if California’s new law fails to pierce the subcontracting veil, then this arbitrage loophole is valid: Pizza Whatever Corp outsources delivery for $X less per hour than a fast food worker would cost, either pocketing the difference in wages rather than paying it to workers as the state intended, and/or undercutting the prices of any competitors still using delivery employees. I imagine there would be interesting outcomes from filing unpaid wages claims with the California m labor department against Doordash and other temp agencies for the difference between hourly wages paid and fast food worker hourly wages owed, when performing delivery services for fast food businesses that are in-scope for the law.