Gig economy is a scam. Zomato, Swiggy, Zepto, all are like this.
Nothing wrong with gig work. Health insurance is the scam.
Health insurance is a little tentacle of the hydra that is capitalism.
The real problem of capitalism is that workers are compensated only for their labor, and not for the value they provide. Workers are not meaningfully involved in directing the company. They are not able to decide how to distribute the profits of the company.
Management is compensated for value, in the form of shares, options for shares, etc. As both management and shareholders, the hold all power to direct the company.
Compensate workers in much the same way as management, and the major problems of capitalism are effectively eliminated.
How do we do that? We strongly favor partnership and S-corp ownership structures over traditional C-corp.
Fair enough, more arguments than I could get from the average poster.
does it also use an algorithm to under-schedule you so you can’t meet quotas?
Don’t give them even more great ideas!
Alternative headline: This delivery app provides health insurance to workers who meet certain quotas.
Also, let’s not forget their scummy competitor Zomato.
Every company is scummy because there’s no regulations and there are no regulations because general public (morons) think of license raj/communism when you mention regulations.
they said they cannot do anything since it’s company policy.
…have they tried?
If protest is what you’re talking about, people are scared of unionizing because it reminds them of Bengal and Kerala’s industrialization failure.
I’m just pointing out the absurdity of a company pointing at company policies as an explanation for why something is impossible…
Living in Denmark, it’s always so odd for me when health insurance is somehow connected to your job… Why?
Health is needed for anyone, both people who work and not. Why it only makes sense for everyone to have access for it, and everyone paying for it over taxes.
Keeping it connected with work is poodle giving the employers more power than they should have - they should not have any power over healthcare.
Why? To make workers fearful. Fearful people are less likely to protest or unionize.
Close, but nah.
Privatized healthcare makes it more expensive.
To add to this, most companies in the us have a waiting period before certain benefits kick in, like health insurance. So if you want to switch jobs for whatever reason, you better be extra careful for the first 3 months of your new job. Unless of course you want to pay $1,000 a month to keep your insurance through cobra, or go through the cluster fuck runaround of getting insurance on your own. So especially when your insurance cover your whole family, it’s a nightmare.
Well, together with at will employment it makes the slaves,eh sorry, team members much more well behaved.
