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Work performed through app-based platforms such as ride-hailing and delivery, including income reliance, flexibility and worker classification.
Deliveroo is running Coco Robotics' pavement robots in five UK towns, starting this month with a handful of Canary Wharf merchants. It says riders keep most orders but has not said what share the robots will take, and merchants and riders need that number to plan.
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CUNY surveyed 561 New York City app couriers and found 48 injuries per 100 full-time workers, over five times the national rate for delivery messengers. Couriers say they rush and work sick to protect their ratings, so app pressure is a plausible cause, though one survey cannot test it.
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Uber and Lyft drivers' hourly pay fell 3.7% in robotaxi-heavy Los Angeles in late 2025 while rising 1.8% nationally, Gridwise data show. For gig platforms, robotaxis are already pressing on driver pay where they run, years before the fleet is big enough to replace anyone.
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The Dutch regulator's fine against Uber turns the rules on automated decisions into a build order: meaningful review before the action lands, and a contest route the driver can actually find.
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Costco same-day delivery is now live on three national apps in the US. What separates them is whether the shopper has to link a paid membership before the order will go through.
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Osahon Aburime says he was driving to a Lyft passenger when he crashed in North Carolina. Sixteen months later he walks with a cane and his minivan has been repossessed. Mobilitas has not paid. Lyft says its insurance meets state rules.
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A GAO count puts DoorDash, Lyft and Uber ahead of Walmart and McDonald's on workers drawing food aid. The durable number here is the ranking, not the sentiment survey attached to it.
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