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You’ll be charged a per-minute fee for making your Lyft driver wait on you.

More than seven years after Uber began charing wait time fees, Lyft has quietly hopped on board with the practice.

Vietnam car rental market has shown strong growth momentum in the past and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.34% during 2022-2027. The market recorded revenue of USD ~ billion in 2021.

Vietnam car rental market has shown strong growth momentum in the past and is expected to grow at a CAGR of 7.34% during 2022-2027. The market recorded revenue of USD ~ billion in 2021.

The settlement would appear to be a retreat from the ride-hailing company’s repeated assertion that its drivers should not be classified as employees.

“We were thinking about entering Senegal in 2019—but the market was not ready for it. The timing is good now—we are seeing a switch from analog to digital. More and more people are going digital with smartphones.”

ALEXANDRIA, Va.—Gig workers are feeling the pain of rising gas prices , reports the New York Times. Because people who work for companies such as Uber, Lyft and DoorDash are considered contract workers, they do not get reimbursed for filling their gas tanks, which is eating into their profits, if they turn one at all.

Lyft released its first safety report on Thursday, revealing that some 4,158 cases of sexual assault were reported to the ride-hailing company between 2017 and 2019. 

SAN FRANCISCO—Uber and GetUpside, a retail technology company, have teamed up to make GetUpside’s fuel and convenience store promotions available to both drivers and delivery people on the Uber platform nationwide, the companies have announced .

The thank-you banners are down, but New York City residents have a real opportunity to show their appreciation for a population of low-paid, primarily immigrant frontline workers. New York City residents can help now by ditching Uber and Lyft for a competing driver-owned alternative app called “Co-op Ride,” created by the mostly volunteer-run Drivers Cooperative. If Co-op’s proposal plays out, drivers could make more money while their passengers, particularly those in underserved communiti...