I'm so tired of this dumb gig economy that isn't long term sustainable.
The gig economy is good in theory - being able to work a few extra hours freelance when you need some extra cash, but giant scummy companies are trying to pretend that this is what they offer in order to screw over their full time employees.
This isn’t a gig economy thing and there are no contractors / 1099.
Two businesses can put whatever contract provisions into their agreement that they want to as long as laws aren’t being broken.
> In April, Amazon announced it would reduce the amount it paid for drivers from $17.25 to $16.00 an hour, according to the letter.
When what Amazon pays doesn’t cover the statutory minimums, the contract delivery companies have to make up the difference.
If I tell IBM that I am not paying $100 an hour for their crappy consultants and will only pay $20, I still don't employ their consultant.
> In April, Amazon announced it would reduce the amount it paid for drivers from $17.25 to $16.00 an hour, according to the letter. This meant Amazon delivery companies were paying even more for drivers' wages.
To me, it just seems to be a reimbursement rate, not what the driver actually makes.
The only one of these that Amazon has any right to dictate is delivery times (and what they will pay for that delivery). The fact that Amazon has direct control over the contractor’s worker’s pay, and even the ability to fire those workers, is very shocking to me.
Remember, this isn’t a situation like Uber: these are not contractors to Amazon, but employees of independent delivery companies.