{"id":9243,"date":"2023-03-10T10:37:37","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T09:37:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/it-was-traumatic-uber-lyft-drivers-decry-low-pay-and-unfair-deactivations\/"},"modified":"2023-03-10T10:37:37","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T09:37:37","slug":"it-was-traumatic-uber-lyft-drivers-decry-low-pay-and-unfair-deactivations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/it-was-traumatic-uber-lyft-drivers-decry-low-pay-and-unfair-deactivations\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018It was traumatic\u2019: Uber, Lyft drivers decry low pay and unfair deactivations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers call for regulation of rideshare companies they say collect up to 50% of fares and arbitrarily close workers\u2019 accounts<\/p>\n<p>For more than five years James Jordan worked full time for Uber in Los Angeles, California, until early 2022, when he was permanently deactivated from the app \u2013 Uber\u2019s equivalent of being fired.<\/p>\n<p>He said he later found out he was deactivated due to old customer complaints, but that Uber would not listen to his appeals or offer to provide dash-cam footage to disprove the allegations.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2023\/mar\/10\/uber-lyft-driver-suspension-deactivation-pay\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/2f0f9e41863caefb587767f3a727294456efa336\/0_200_6000_3600\/master\/6000.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=a2d022d34bef2bd0b693bd6b6f53c9f9\" title=\"\u2018It was traumatic\u2019: Uber, Lyft drivers decry low pay and unfair deactivations\" \/>Drivers call for regulation of rideshare companies they say collect up to 50% of fares and arbitrarily close workers\u2019 accounts<br \/>\nFor more than five years James Jordan worked full time for Uber in Los Angeles, California, until early 2022, when he was permanently deactivated from the app \u2013 Uber\u2019s equivalent of being fired.<br \/>\nHe said he later found out he was deactivated due to old customer complaints, but that Uber would not listen to his appeals or offer to provide dash-cam footage to disprove the allegations. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Drivers call for regulation of rideshare companies they say collect up to 50% of fares and arbitrarily close workers\u2019 accounts For more than five years James Jordan worked full time for Uber in Los Angeles, California, until early 2022, when he was permanently deactivated from the app \u2013 Uber\u2019s equivalent of being fired. He said &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/03\/10\/it-was-traumatic-uber-lyft-drivers-decry-low-pay-and-unfair-deactivations\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">\u2018It was traumatic\u2019: Uber, Lyft drivers decry low pay and unfair deactivations<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9244,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9244"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}