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Seattle council may make U-turn on delivery drivers’ pay as fees increase

Maelstrom Pullman, a DoorDasher, accepts a request for a delivery on his phone Tuesday, August 30, 2022. The time to accept a request is very short, sometimes only 30 seconds.  Pullman lives in Capitol Hill and delivers in the Central Seattle area.  He’s been heavily involved in advocacy work for the Pay Up legislation that Seattle adopted this year (to go into effect next year) that would ensure a minimum wage and IRS reimbursement for delivery drivers.  221380

The Seattle City Council took up a suite of proposed changes Thursday to the city’s minimum pay standard for app-based delivery drivers that would cut hourly and per-mile rates, change when and how pay is calculated, and roll back regulatory requirements placed on the companies earlier this year. Taken together, the goal of the changes...

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