Love connection denied. Well at least you shot your shot.

Okay having been on the inside of how these delivery apps work I can tell you that once you make delivery workers employees what happens is managers ward over their shifts and treat them like shit they play favorites and people get screwed. The Independence is the only leverage that the drivers actually have and companies like DoorDash when they turn them into employees are going to leverage that against each other and all these delivery workers are just going to get laid off. What's better having two delivery workers that work at the restaurant or having 18 16 of which come from DoorDash. Restaurants that employ delivery workers should pay them at least $23 an hour what shouldn't be allowed is for DoorDash to bombard those restaurants with different drivers and screw those people over.

You're a moron if you think firemen make $23 an hour

I assume you tip your Uber driver for your $60 Uber for that 20 minute ride?

Because FDNY job involves going into a burning building and potentially dying, whereas their job involves riding electric bicycle less than 5 mi and back.

William Medina, a delivery worker in Queens, waits for orders to trickle in from DoorDash and Grubhub. Thirty minutes can go by without a single order. Sometimes an hour.

He gets paid by the order, so no order, no money.

“I’m always ready,” said Mr. Medina, 38, an immigrant from Colombia, who makes an average of $150 to $200, mostly in tips, for up to 12 hours of work.

Mr. Medina is one of more than 60,000 app-based food delivery workers who race across the city to serve hungry New Yorkers. Many put in long hours, while braving nasty storms, flooding, speeding drivers and thieves.

The workers banded together in the summer of 2020 as Los Deliveristas Unidos. Mr. Medina, who is an outspoken member, and his colleagues are demanding better pay and working conditions, arguing that they are part of a booming industry. Since delivery workers are independent contractors, they are not covered by minimum wage laws and basic employee protections such as workers’ compensation insurance.

Now, as a result of their efforts, Uber Eats, Grubhub, DoorDash and other app services may soon have to pay workers like Mr. Medina significantly more, as the city moves to regulate pay practices in the largest food delivery market in the country.

Under a proposal by the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, the app services would be required to pay an average hourly rate of at least $23.82, not including tips, to delivery workers by 2025. The agency, which will hold a Dec. 16 hearing on the proposal, is expected to implement it early next year.

The minimum hourly rate would apply to a worker’s total “trip time” each week, which would be calculated from the moment a worker accepts an order to when the delivery is completed. It would include the time it takes to go to a restaurant and wait for the order, as well as any traffic delays. The rate would be phased in over two years, starting at $17.87 per hour next year.

The app services would also have to pay the minimum hourly rate on the total amount of “on-call time” that all the delivery workers collectively spend waiting for orders each week. However, the proposal currently leaves it up to each company to decide exactly how these payments would be made.

The city’s proposal has drawn criticism from the app companies, who warn that it would increase their labor and delivery costs, and could result in higher prices for customers and fewer orders for restaurants. They also say that it would undermine a delivery system that currently allows workers to plan flexible schedules.

Josh Gold, a spokesman for Uber Eats, said the service would be forced to “aggressively manage supply and demand” to reduce waiting times for workers. He said that could mean limiting the number of people who could sign up for peak hours in popular neighborhoods.

“It’s going to create a different set of problems,” Mr. Gold said. “These workers are going to be pitted against each other to get the best time and location.”