On this occasion in Pura Política, the commissioner of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection of the City, Vilma Vera Machuca and the executive director of the organization Workers Justice Program, Ligia Guallpa discuss the real effects of the implementation of a minimum wage for workers who make a living delivering food, the so-called “deliveristas†.
Commissioner Vera said that in the last two months there have been significantly big changes for the worker.
Having a minimum wage means that the worker can protect his safety and ensure that traffic signs are respected, while the delivery driver is compensated for the time he is working, which did not exist previously.
The worker depended mostly on tips as his main income.
To quantify the benefit of the measure adopted by the Municipal Council, Ligia Guallpa said that: “Today we are seeing that for many workers who earned $700, 800, or 900 dollars, half of their income depended on tips. Today workers are earning between $1,300 and $1,400, with half of that income dependent on the adjustment to the minimum wage.”
Regarding possible non-compliance with the law by online platforms that employ these workers, Vera said:
“All that and those individuals have always been there for us, right? It has been an incredible achievement for us to finally be able to put this into law and have it enforced. Our role is to enforce it. We are always going to have the attitude that we want to educate, right? “We want real applications to simply do it because they understand that it is necessary and it is good.”
“The easiest way depends on the preference of the individual,†the commissioner said about how to file a complaint with her agency for insufficient payments or violations of the law, adding that they can do so by phone by calling 311; or online at nyc.gov/workers
2024-02-11 20:09:00
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