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Pizza Hut franchises in California lay off all delivery drivers ahead of $20 minimum wage increase
(www.sfchronicle.com)
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But that IS the jobs going away. You converted a full time job into an occasional time job. Say you were make $15/hr 40hrs/week. That's $600/week. Now they convert your full time job into a gig job and you're making $20/hr, but you only work 10 hours per week. You're now making $200/week. You now need to try and make up that $400/week shortfall in your income. Good thing you got that massive pay increase though, right?
Not 'part-time' work , gig work. Ubereats, Deliveroo etc. A lot of these guys are working full time. Maybe you weren't paying attention to those guys you said couldn't argue with you.
I thought we were supposed to hate gig work because it exploited the workers. Wasn't that the entire point of California's AB 5? Why all of a sudden are we in favor of gig work?
I'm not