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Judge delays rollout of New York's delivery worker minimum wage law

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  1. autumnlicious
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    There’s something pathetic and evil about trying to shoot down attempts to stop exploitation of workers. “My business model can’t work without exploitation!” Um, fix your model or die....

    There’s something pathetic and evil about trying to shoot down attempts to stop exploitation of workers. “My business model can’t work without exploitation!” Um, fix your model or die. Perpetuating injustice because “I make money from it” is just gross.

    22 votes
  2. boredop
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    sub-headline and tl;dr:

    sub-headline and tl;dr:

    A temporary order bolsters efforts by apps to stop a law that would require them to pay delivery workers $17.96 an hour and make New York the first major U.S. city to set a wage floor for them.

    11 votes
  3. Wulfsta
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    These companies already displaced delivery drivers at restaurants to create the market they’re now siphoning money from, and purporting that regulating this will damage those restaurants and...

    These companies already displaced delivery drivers at restaurants to create the market they’re now siphoning money from, and purporting that regulating this will damage those restaurants and consumers?

    8 votes