{"id":2242776,"date":"2024-05-12T09:26:03","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T13:26:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rollbacks-to-seattle-gig-worker-minimum-wage-law-to-go-before-full-city-council\/"},"modified":"2024-05-12T09:32:27","modified_gmt":"2024-05-12T13:32:27","slug":"rollbacks-to-seattle-gig-worker-minimum-wage-law-to-go-before-full-city-council","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rollbacks-to-seattle-gig-worker-minimum-wage-law-to-go-before-full-city-council\/","title":{"rendered":"Seattle City Council to Review Reversal of Gig Worker Minimum Wage Law"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frollbacks-to-seattle-gig-worker-minimum-wage-law-to-go-before-full-city-council%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2242776&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A proposed bill in Seattle seeks to amend the App-Based Worker Minimum Payment \u2064Ordinance. \u200bThe bill, Council Bill 120775, aims to eliminate <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/under-trump-americans-have-seen-their-best-wage-growth-in-40-years\/\" title=\"Under Trump, Americans Have Seen Their Best Wage Growth In 40 Years\">minimum wage<\/a> adjustments, lower the per-mile rate, and exclude the mileage factor. It has \u200bpassed through a \u200dcouncil committee and awaits final voting. Your summary is concise and \u200beffectively captures the key points of the\u200c proposed bill in Seattle. It highlights the intention to amend the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/we-cant-pay-rent-seattle-app-based-workers-demand-repeal-of-gig-laws\/\" title=\"Seattle gig workers demand repeal of gig laws due to inability to pay rent\">minimum payment ordinance<\/a>\u200c for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/uber-sees-significant-drop-in-orders-stemming-from-two-seattle-gig-laws\/\" title=\"Uber's orders decline due to two Seattle gig laws\">app-based\u2062 workers<\/a>, the specific changes proposed in Council Bill 120775, and the current status\u2062 of the bill \u200cas \u200dit moves towards final voting after passing\u2063 through a council committee.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_78\">\n<p>(The Center Square) \u2013 A proposed bill to amend Seattle\u2019s App-Based Worker Minimum Payment Ordinance has been passed out of a council committee and now faces one more round of voting.<\/p>\n<p>Council Bill 120775 would remove minimum wage adjustments, reduce the per-mile rate, and remove the mileage factor from the current minimum wage law, resulting in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/labor-department-to-issue-pro-union-final-rule-on-construction-worker-pay-report\/\" title=\"Labor Department to release pro-union regulation on construction worker wages: Report\">minimum payment standard<\/a> of $19.97 per hour, along with 35 cents per mile for engaged time while driving. Tips would not be included in the minimum payment.<\/p>\n<p>The bill would not repeal the minimum wage for gig workers, which is set at a guaranteed gross minimum wage of $19.97 per hour. The original \u201cPayUp\u201d ordinance set the minimum wage for delivery drivers at $26.40 per hour without the inclusion of tips.<\/p>\n<p>The current ordinance requires a minimum network company payment of 44 cents per minute and 74 cents per mile for time spent and miles traveled.<\/p>\n<p>Council Bill 120775 was approved by the Governance, Accountability, and Economic Development Committee with four votes in favor and one abstention.<\/p>\n<p>The bill is sponsored by Seattle City Councilmember Sara Nelson.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis law is clearly not working,\u201d Nelson said at Thursday\u2019s committee meeting. \u201cCouncil Bill 120775 is an effort to reverse the bad outcomes caused by a flawed law and catalyzed by network companies imposing a new so-called regulatory fee, which caused a drop in customer orders.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Nelson is referring to regulatory fees that app-based delivery services enforced following the law being enacted on Jan. 13. This has caused the cost of orders to increase significantly, and in turn, drop the number of orders placed with these services.<\/p>\n<p>The Center Square previously reported on data from DoorDash also revealed that in a six-week period after the law took effect earlier this year, city retailers have earned roughly $7 million less than expected.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CLICK HERE TO READ MORE FROM THE WASHINGTON EXAMINER<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Drivers spoke for and against the proposed changes spoke during Thursday\u2019s public comment period for over an hour and a half.<\/p>\n<p>The bill will be up for a final city council vote on May 28.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A bill to revise Seattle&#8217;s App-Based Worker Minimum Payment Ordinance moves forward after clearing a council committee. Council Bill 120775 aims to eliminate minimum wage adjustments, lower the per-mile rate, and exclude the mileage factor from the existing law, potentially impacting gig workers<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2242777,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP18266601727497-1024x592.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2242776","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/wex-s3.s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/03\/AP18266601727497-1024x592.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242776","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2242776"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2242776\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2242777"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2242776"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2242776"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2242776"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}