Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus protection and pay

Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by droopyEyelids on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:41PM (#22730224)

The way it has worked in the past is that drivers get 100% of the tip, but the tip amount is subtracted from their base pay.

Company tells the worker a delivery pays $15, you tip $5, the company reduces their portion to $10, the worker gets $15 total. You tip $10? The company pays $5, worker still walks away with $15.

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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by RHSeeger on Monday March 30, 2020 @01:54PM (#22730370)

Given that DD also had a minimum they would pay, regardless of tip, that can also be stated as

- We will pay you $X

- We will make sure you make at least $Y

If you make the wording changes

- $X == <wait staff minimum wage>

- $Y == <normal minimum wage>

Then it becomes clear that this is exactly how restaurants work; with the caveat that it's per delivery instead of per hour.

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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by gkop on Monday March 30, 2020 @03:00PM (#22731091)

This framing would certainly be more transparent. I doubt though that DoorDash would want to explicitly adopt a compensation practice that's illegal in seven states including their home state of California (https://www.dol.gov/agencies/whd/state/minimum-wage/tipped).

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Re:Amazon, Instacart delivery workers strike for coronavirus... by RHSeeger on Monday March 30, 2020 @04:28PM (#22731971)

Assuming you take == as "works the same as" not "is the same monetary value", then what about it is illegal?

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