{"id":482,"date":"2024-10-18T13:46:00","date_gmt":"2024-10-18T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=482"},"modified":"2024-11-04T13:48:42","modified_gmt":"2024-11-04T18:48:42","slug":"lander-demands-end-to-uber-and-lyfts-use-of-cruel-driver-lockouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2024\/10\/18\/lander-demands-end-to-uber-and-lyfts-use-of-cruel-driver-lockouts\/","title":{"rendered":"Lander demands end to Uber and Lyft\u2019s use of \u2018cruel\u2019 driver lockouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2024 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff<\/p>\n<p>CITYWIDE \u2014 NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER BRAD LANDER joined the New York Taxi Workers Alliance on Thursday to demand an end to Uber and Lyft\u2019s practice of \u201clocking out\u201d drivers from their work apps in order to exploit a loophole in the city\u2019s law, which requires the companies to pay drivers for their time between trips. An investigation by Bloomberg found that Uber and Lyft lockouts significantly reduced driver income, \u201ccheating\u201d them out of $5,000 to $8,000 a year, according to the Alliance.<br \/>Lander and the TWA \u201care committed to working together to win changes to TLC rules and City Council legislation that will close this loophole,\u201d the Comptroller said in a release.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Councilmember representing Brooklyn\u2019s Little Bangladesh in Kensington, a community with hundreds of working-class immigrant taxi workers, I am outraged by Uber and Lyft\u2019s blatant efforts to undermine fair pay through unjust lockouts and deactivations,\u201d said Councilmember Shahana<br \/>Hanif (D-39).<\/p>\n<p>\u2730<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/articles\/2024\/10\/18\/lander-demands-end-to-uber-and-lyfts-driver-lockouts\/\">[Read More: Lander demands end to Uber and Lyft\u2019s use of \u2018cruel\u2019 driver lockouts]<\/a><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>October 18, 2024 | Brooklyn Eagle Staff<\/p>\n<p>CITYWIDE \u2014 NEW YORK CITY COMPTROLLER BRAD LANDER joined the New York Taxi Workers Alliance on Thursday to demand an end to Uber and Lyft\u2019s practice of \u201clocking out\u201d drivers from their work apps in order to exploit a loophole in the city\u2019s law, which requires the companies to pay drivers for their time between trips.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2024\/10\/18\/lander-demands-end-to-uber-and-lyfts-use-of-cruel-driver-lockouts\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":289,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-482","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/289"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}