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...“If Brussels forces Uber to reclassify drivers and couriers across the EU, we could expect to see a 50-70 per cent reduction in the number of work opportunities,” Díaz said....
...In a spreadsheet where he had meticulously logged every contact with Uber customer service, Samii had recorded 14 emails and 126 minutes on the phone....
...The couriers of meals and groceries are unhappy with low, and often falling, pay as technology companies with thin margins are pressed by investors to raise profits....
...The capital return announcement coincided with a wave of planned strikes by delivery workers in North America and the UK on Wednesday, as couriers for services including Uber, Just Eat Takeaway, Deliveroo...
...In the October-December period, there was a record high of 5.4mn drivers and couriers on Uber, it added....
...The move will follow Uber, which in April told the Financial Times that it would bring its Uber Eats food service to Germany in a “few weeks”, beginning in Berlin....
...Prosecutors in Milan have threatened online delivery services with fines running into hundreds of millions of euros after a year-long investigation into working practices....
...Evri, the delivery company that rebranded itself from Hermes, also put pension arrangements in place earlier this year for couriers opting for what the company terms “self-employed plus” status....
...The UK pension scheme was a world first for Uber, which has since urged other ride-hailing services to offer similar benefits to their drivers....
...Like Uber drivers and Deliveroo couriers, social media influencers are at the mercy of algorithms. This makes them perfect fodder for conspiracy theories....
...Sixty couriers will now work full-time for DoorDash’s pilot launch in New York, with set pay and benefits....
...Over two years, Alexandru, a 38-year-old Uber driver in London amassed nearly 7,000 trips and kept a flawless five-star customer service rating....
...Under these proposals, seen by the Financial Times, all gig economy companies — from food delivery to cleaning services and ride-hailing — will be forced to prove that their workforces are self-employed...
...James Farrar, general secretary of the App Drivers and Couriers Union, claimed that the legal action was a “failed collateral attack” on the Supreme Court ruling by Uber....
...DHL, the international courier and package delivery company, is investing in 12 categories of robotics and software across 7,500 projects, including developing algorithms, using wearable devices and enabling...
...DoorDash said: “We believe this legislation and any similar legislation is unnecessary in light of the range of choices available to merchants; harmful to consumers, [couriers], and the restaurants these...
...According to Uber’s second-quarter earnings report, the app gained 420,000 monthly active drivers and couriers from February to July....
...Just Eat Takeaway’s gross merchandise volume — a measure of consumer spending across its services — went up by 51 per cent last year....
...Uber has been coy about the potential cost of making any of its 3.5m global active drivers and couriers into employees, but the landmark UK Supreme Court ruling in February, in which the court ruled that...
...Uber has been coy about the potential cost of making any of its 3.5m global active drivers and couriers into employees, but recent changes give some glimpse at how it might seek to handle future financial...
...couriers in its Uber Eats business, who remain self-employed....
...London is the most valuable city for food delivery apps in the UK, which is itself Europe’s largest market for ecommerce services....
...Another is Slerp, which connects restaurants to couriers at a commission rate of 7.5 per cent....
...But it has been able to raise prices too, because air cargo capacity has shrunk Both couriers should be able to maintain the upper hand for a while....
...Dig into last week’s Labor Report figures, and you will see that job growth in November was dominated by “couriers” and “warehouse workers”....
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