NYC proposes 5 percent raise for rideshare drivers in a bid to appease Uber and Lyft

New York City’s Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) settled in new minimum wage rules for Rideshare drivers, Bloomberg report. Drivers will receive five suggestions from a compromise to discourage five offers under the new proposal, Uber and LYFT.

The proposal must vote before the Support of TLC by the Commissioner’s Council, on the contrary, it will end up in the city for months. Uber started sporadically Drivers keep out of his application In May 2024 prevent them from making walking and money. The company was able to access the application to not pay drivers working, but actively browsing. In addition to getting acquainted with the minimum wage for drivers began close to $ 18 per hour In 2022, in New York, the law between drivers pay for money for the time of working hours, Uber and LYFT also included the conditions in accordance with their laws.

Bloomberg writes TLC, first to increase the 6.1 percent to increase Uber and Lyft to lock drivers. The proposal would regulate how the driver pays a guarantee of a warfare before the driver pays the rising and drivers before entering the Rideshare application. An increase of five percent each year and a commitment to increase salary and instead of this is based on another idea instead of “changing industrial dynamics.” Probably not enough for Lyft. The company told Bloomberg “This changes, although these changes are one step in the right direction, the main payment formula is still deprivating the opportunities of profitability, to increase drivers’ prices and reduce riding availability.”

Uber and Lyft had a controversial attitude with urban and state governments over the driver’s protection for a long time. In comparison to the last In California in CaliforniaConcertor concert employees as further contractors Another law did the oppositeEven the minimum wage law in New York is better than nothing.