On weekends, a gig delivery worker in Utah takes out his phone and opens one of three apps to make some extra money as an independent contractor. But working on apps like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and ...

But metrics such as this are just one aspect of delivery gig work that workers say feels like a traditional job. For example, one Chicago delivery worker told BI that he avoids Grubhub due to the ...

Companies like DoorDash, Uber Technologies Inc. and Lyft Inc. face pressure from regulators and labor advocates to offer better pay and benefits to gig workers, who aren’t salaried employees.

After voters passed Prop 22 in 2020, a group of Uber and Lyft drivers filed a lawsuit that challenged the law. Prop 22 was overturned in 2021 when a judge deemed it “unconstitutional,” but an ...

DoorDash is using W2 employees to make some deliveries in Austin, Texas, and Fresno, California. That's a big shift from using gig workers.

Oversupply of delivery app drivers leads to waitlists at one company. One Bay Area woman was surprised when she tried to return to the gig worker world and become a delivery app driver.

Flex, the lobbying group backed by Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash, is supporting Trump’s nominees to lead the Labor Department, signaling potential shifts in worker classification and labor policy.

When it comes to motivating app-based gig economy workers like DoorDash and Uber drivers, giving out money and virtual high fives are separately effective — but not when given together — according to ...

FILE - In this Feb. 27, 2020, file photo, the DoorDash app is shown on a smartphone in New York. ... Seattle City Council may revise delivery pay law following restaurant, gig worker pushback ...

Dashers (which is what DoorDash calls its gig workers) who earn at least $1,000 in the first quarter of 2025, excluding tips, will be eligible to open a portable benefits savings account in April ...

Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash can continue classifying workers as contractors in California following a ruling from the state’s Supreme Court to uphold Prop 22. It’s a blow to gig workers in the state.