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The Legal Challenge to NYC’s Minimum Payments Law: Do Lyft and Juno Have a Point?

Feb 7, 2019 Sanjukta Paul

New York City’s new minimum payments rule for drivers in the ride-hailing sector is sorely needed, and is in many ways a policy model for cities around the country. The City ought to perfect this path-breaking policy by ensuring that it does not advantage dominant firms—currently, Uber—and handicap non-dominant firms, a result that will not […]

January 31, 2019
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In December, we reported that the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission established a pay formula for drivers of transportation network companies like Uber, Lyft, and Juno. The formula would set a minimum pay standard of $17.22 an hour after expenses. But just days before the standard is set to go into effect on […]

December 6, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

The New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission voted this week to create a minimum pay standard for the approximately 80,000 drivers in the city working for transportation network companies like Uber, Lyft, Juno, and Via. The standard establishes a per-minute and per-mile formula that is expected to create a pay floor of $17.22 net […]

November 8, 2018
News & Commentary

Jared Odessky

In its first opinion of the term, the Supreme Court unanimously (8-0) ruled in favor of the employees in Mount Lemmon Fire District v. Guido, holding that the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) applies to all public employers regardless of employee headcount. The ADEA defines an employer as “a person engaged in industry affecting […]

July 3, 2018
News & Commentary

Vail Kohnert-Yount

After long campaign by thousands of app-based drivers with the Independent Drivers Guild, New York City released a report today analyzing a proposal to establish a minimum pay rate for app-based for-hire vehicle drivers. The NYC Taxi and Limousine Commission, which would enact and implement the pay standard, contracted with Dr. James Parrott of the […]

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