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Uber, DoorDash and Grubhub are suing for an injunction to stop New York City's new $18 minimum wage law for food delivery app workers..

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[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Can’t afford the new minimum wage, but they can afford the lawyers and the lawsuit.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Lawsuit is a one time expense, paying fair wages would cost them forever

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

It is not that they can't afford, they will rise the prices and because of that they will lose lots of customers, so they will contract and as result the absolute amount of profits will be reduced.