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Travail à la demande - 27 avril 2021
Livraison de repas à domicile, voitures avec chauffeur, participation rémunérée à des sondages : "l’économie des petits boulots" ou "gig economy" génère un chiffre d’affaires planétaire de 5 000 milliards de dollars, en constante expansion. Des États-Unis au Nigeria, de la France à la Chine, un voyage à la rencontre des (...)
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Gig Workers’ Data Rights Should Be Prioritized in Labor’s Next Fight - 9 février 2021
In the November election, California voters delivered a blow to gig workers by passing Prop 22, a ballot initiative permitting companies like Uber and Lyft to continue treating app-based and delivery drivers as independent contractors rather than employees. The vote was widely seen as a rebuttal to AB5, a 2019 law (...)
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Coronavirus Is Speeding Up the Amazonification of the Planet - 23 décembre 2020
As restaurants, bars, and local shops close down, platform-based monoliths are vacuuming up customers and jobs
There are always parties who profit in times of crisis, and so it goes with our ever-accelerating global pandemic. For toilet paper manufacturers and supermarket chains and, say, a pair of grifter (...)
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Gig Companies Like Uber Are Now Lobbying to Change Labor Laws Nationwide - 23 novembre 2020
Prop 22 was only the beginning
Last week, a confident Dara Khosrowshahi, chief executive of Uber, told investors that Proposition 22 was only the beginning. The contentious ballot measure, which was voted into law by millions of Californians this month, allows Uber and Lyft to subvert a new state labor law that (...)
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La Californie permet désormais aux entreprises de technologie de rédiger leurs propres lois - 19 novembre 2020
Objet d’une campagne de propagande qui a coûté plus de 200 millions de dollars, l’électorat californien a adopté la « Proposition 22 » soutenue par Uber et Lyft, excluant définitivement les travailleurs des « plates-formes » en ligne de la protection du travail.
Le 3 novembre, les électeurs californiens ont adopté la (...)
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Uber bought itself a law. Here’s why that’s dangerous for struggling drivers like me - 12 novembre 2020
The company, along with Lyft and DoorDash, spent more than $200m to deny drivers the wages and benefits we’re entitled to
Last week, Uber bought itself a law.
Along with Lyft, Instacart, DoorDash and Postmates, app companies spent more than $200m – the most spent on any ballot campaign in US history – to bankroll (...)
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’Those in Power Won’t Give Up Willingly’ : Veena Dubal and Meredith Whittaker on the Future of Organizing Under Prop 22 - 5 novembre 2020
Workers can build solidarity and fight back against ‘anti-democratic, corporate law-making’
California voters, overwhelmed by a deluge of gig-company-sponsored misinformation over several months, voted in favor of Proposition 22, which eradicates basic labor protections for the state’s most vulnerable workers.
The (...)
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Proposition 22 : What Has Changed, What Has Not - 5 novembre 2020
A cheat sheet for your doomscrolling
Proposition 22 passed in California on Tuesday. Uber, Lyft, and other gig economy companies spent more than $200 million on the ballot measure, which will allow them to classify drivers as independent contractors rather than employees.
Here’s what has changed :
Gig economy (...)
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Results : California votes on Proposition 22 to allow Lyft and Uber drivers to be independent contractors - 4 novembre 2020
A recent study shows that over 70% of gig workers work more than 30 hours a week but do not receive most employee benefits.
Polls have closed in California on Proposition 22, which would allow companies to hire app-based drivers as independent contractors instead of employees of the company.
A recent (...)
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Etats-Unis : La Californie approuve la proposition d’Uber pour protéger son modèle économique - 4 novembre 2020
Cela signifie que les dizaines de milliers de chauffeurs californiens resteront indépendants mais aussi qu’ils recevront des compensations
Les électeurs californiens ont approuvé mardi à 58 % la « Proposition 22 », formulée par Uber et d’autres sociétés pour préserver leur modèle de plateformes avec des chauffeurs (...)
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The racist business model behind Uber and Lyft - 29 octobre 2020
The apps feed a false promise of stability to immigrants and people of color. Instead, drivers receive low pay and no benefits
Uber and Lyft want you to know they aren’t racist. It’s why Uber put up billboards all over the west coast saying : “If you tolerate racism, delete Uber.” It’s why Lyft is running ads (...)
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En Californie, la « gig economy » soumise à référendum - 14 octobre 2020
Uber, Lyft et d’autres plates-formes soumettent au vote, le 3 novembre, la « proposition 22 » pour empêcher une « normalisation » du statut des chauffeurs et livreurs.
Si l’issue du match Trump-Biden ne fait aucun doute en Californie, Etat majoritairement démocrate, le suspense est entier, en revanche, sur le sort de la (...)
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Seattle approves minimum pay rate for Uber and Lyft drivers - 2 octobre 2020
The Seattle City Council passed a minimum pay standard for drivers for companies like Uber Technologies Inc <UBER.N> and Lyft Inc <LYFT.O> on Tuesday.
Under the ordinance, effective January, the drivers will now earn at least $16.39 per hour - the minimum wage in Seattle for companies with more than (...)
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Uber and Lyft’s California Proposal Is a Mishmash of Old Ideas - 17 septembre 2020
The past is our best guide for understanding the future of ride-hailing apps
Uber and Lyft are at war with the state of California after a judge ruled last month that ride-hailing companies, like other businesses, should be subject to a new law that classifies their workers as employees rather than independent (...)
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California Bill Makes App-Based Companies Treat Workers as Employees - - 13 septembre 2020
SACRAMENTO — California legislators approved a landmark bill on Tuesday that requires companies like Uber and Lyft to treat contract workers as employees, a move that could reshape the gig economy and that adds fuel to a yearslong debate over whether the nature of work has become too insecure.
The bill passed in a (...)
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Amazon Drivers Are Hanging Smartphones in Trees to Get More Work - 1er septembre 2020
Someone seems to have rigged Amazon system to get orders first
Operation reflects ferocious rivalry for gigs in a bad economy
A strange phenomenon has emerged near Amazon.com Inc. delivery stations and Whole Foods stores in the Chicago suburbs : smartphones dangling from trees. Contract delivery drivers are (...)
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’A totally different ballgame’ : Inside Uber and Lyft’s fight over gig worker status - 29 août 2020
Labor activists are targeted in a social media campaign as gig economy companies spend millions to prevent workers from becoming employees.
Veena Dubal couldn’t stop her mind from reeling. It was around midnight on March 29 and coronavirus lockdowns were in effect. She says she paced back and forth between her (...)
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Judge grants Uber and Lyft temporary stay, averting shutdown of California services - 22 août 2020
Lyft had announced planned suspension in blogpost as it awaited landmark decision which would enforce labor law AB5
A California judge has granted Uber and Lyft a temporary stay, heading off a shutdown by the two platforms at the last minute in an ongoing case that would require the ride-hailing giants to (...)
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California Uber and Lyft drivers brace for shutdown over worker classification - 22 août 2020
Companies threatened to shut down operations over a court ruling ordering them to classify their drivers as employees by 20 August
Uber and Lyft drivers are bracing for a shutdown in California, one of the rideshare companies’ largest markets. For drivers it is a bittersweet moment. One that couldn’t come at a (...)
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A judge ordered Uber and Lyft to convert drivers to employees, but it’s not a done deal - 16 août 2020
The coronavirus pandemic may actually be an ideal time for the companies to reset their business, judge Ethan Schulman argued.
A San Francisco judge ordered Uber and Lyft to convert their drivers to employees after a "prolonged and brazen refusal to copy with California law."
"Defendants may not evade (...)
