担心缺乏安全保障，美国网约车司机要求带薪病假
随着人们对新型冠状病毒的担忧日益加剧，Uber，Lyft和DoorDash等公司的司机和送货员联合要求带薪病假待遇。目前请愿团体已有900多人加入，诉求是让加州政府要求公司提供带薪病假，因为一直以来相关人员只能得到合同工待遇。
请愿书称，零工人员每天要跟各种各样的人接触，包括去机场或医院的人，经常“暴露在危险前线”。由于没有带薪病假，只得被迫在赚钱跟健康之间做出选择。
“说到底，我们缺乏安全保障，”Lyft司机伊丹·阿尔瓦说。这些公司“知道应该负责……但不断逃避。”
提供零工岗位的公司表示，努力根据新型冠状病毒在全国蔓延的形势制定新政策，保护客户和员工。
组织递交请愿书的团体叫Gig Workers Rising，主要关注零工人员希望获得员工待遇的诉求。1月，一项名为《汇编法案5》（AB5）的新法律生效，这项法律使得Uber和Lyft等公司很难将员工当成合同工。但各家公司还是继续将零工人员当做合同工，同时推动投票寻找AB5的替代方案。
2018年8月，推动社会变革的非营利组织Working Partnerships USA与多家劳工团体联合发起 Gig Workers Rising运动。此后，该运动一直借AB5法律通过，以及Uber和Lyft上市的机会发起抗议。Gig Workers Rising主要组织者劳伦·凯西表示，新型冠状病毒蔓延后，带薪病假变得更加紧迫。
“如果有人享受不到病假和医保等基本权利，确实可能导致社会问题，”她说。 “上周，司机们听说Lyft和Instacart等公司安排正式员工在家远程工作——区别对待挺明显。”
Uber，DoorDash和Instacart表示，如果司机确诊感染新型冠状病毒或被公共卫生机构隔离，最多支付14天的费用。Lyft也推出类似计划，支付感染或被正式隔离的司机费用，不过没明确规定具体时间。
外卖公司Postmates表示已成立基金，向超过22个州的员工提供与新型冠状病毒影响相关的就诊和医疗费用。公司还表示，为用户提供无接触取外卖服务，外卖员可将食品放在门口便离开。DoorDash正测试类似功能。
但是组织请愿书的人们表示，相关措施还不够。
问题在于，如果想让公司支付费用，就得先确认感染新型冠状病毒。然而很多零工人员生病了也不会看医生，因为没有医保付不起诊疗费用。最重要的是，卫生官员建议，如果人们感到不适，不管有没有确诊都应该在家隔离。请愿人员则表示，并没有选择。
零工人员“得在（自身健康）和赚钱交租之间做出选择，”凯西说。 “任何人被迫做此选择都很残酷。”
在Lyft当全职司机的卡洛斯·拉莫斯说，担心零工人员工作方面得不到充分指导，对病毒传播发展到何种程度时应该停工也不是很清楚。
“我们在车里呼吸着流通不畅的空气，会有细菌交换，”他说。 “然而我们收到的健康提示跟其他人一样。”
拉莫斯还担心，如果病毒蔓延的趋势持续，“底线崩塌”只是时间问题，届时司机将拉不到足够的乘客维持生计。另一方面公司还是把零工人员当成合同工，也得不到失业补偿。
Gig Workers Rising计划接下来几天里继续收集签名，然后确定下一步行动。
“这次疫情影响巨大，”加州阿拉米达市一位Uber和Lyft司机表示，他担心遭到报复所以要求匿名。 “必须迅速采取行动，因为有太多人面临风险。”（财富中文网）
译者：梁宇
审校：夏林
随着人们对新型冠状病毒的担忧日益加剧，Uber，Lyft和DoorDash等公司的司机和送货员联合要求带薪病假待遇。目前请愿团体已有900多人加入，诉求是让加州政府要求公司提供带薪病假，因为一直以来相关人员只能得到合同工待遇。
请愿书称，零工人员每天要跟各种各样的人接触，包括去机场或医院的人，经常“暴露在危险前线”。由于没有带薪病假，只得被迫在赚钱跟健康之间做出选择。
“说到底，我们缺乏安全保障，”Lyft司机伊丹·阿尔瓦说。这些公司“知道应该负责……但不断逃避。”
提供零工岗位的公司表示，努力根据新型冠状病毒在全国蔓延的形势制定新政策，保护客户和员工。
组织递交请愿书的团体叫Gig Workers Rising，主要关注零工人员希望获得员工待遇的诉求。1月，一项名为《汇编法案5》（AB5）的新法律生效，这项法律使得Uber和Lyft等公司很难将员工当成合同工。但各家公司还是继续将零工人员当做合同工，同时推动投票寻找AB5的替代方案。
2018年8月，推动社会变革的非营利组织Working Partnerships USA与多家劳工团体联合发起 Gig Workers Rising运动。此后，该运动一直借AB5法律通过，以及Uber和Lyft上市的机会发起抗议。Gig Workers Rising主要组织者劳伦·凯西表示，新型冠状病毒蔓延后，带薪病假变得更加紧迫。
“如果有人享受不到病假和医保等基本权利，确实可能导致社会问题，”她说。 “上周，司机们听说Lyft和Instacart等公司安排正式员工在家远程工作——区别对待挺明显。”
Uber，DoorDash和Instacart表示，如果司机确诊感染新型冠状病毒或被公共卫生机构隔离，最多支付14天的费用。Lyft也推出类似计划，支付感染或被正式隔离的司机费用，不过没明确规定具体时间。
外卖公司Postmates表示已成立基金，向超过22个州的员工提供与新型冠状病毒影响相关的就诊和医疗费用。公司还表示，为用户提供无接触取外卖服务，外卖员可将食品放在门口便离开。DoorDash正测试类似功能。
但是组织请愿书的人们表示，相关措施还不够。
问题在于，如果想让公司支付费用，就得先确认感染新型冠状病毒。然而很多零工人员生病了也不会看医生，因为没有医保付不起诊疗费用。最重要的是，卫生官员建议，如果人们感到不适，不管有没有确诊都应该在家隔离。请愿人员则表示，并没有选择。
零工人员“得在（自身健康）和赚钱交租之间做出选择，”凯西说。 “任何人被迫做此选择都很残酷。”
在Lyft当全职司机的卡洛斯·拉莫斯说，担心零工人员工作方面得不到充分指导，对病毒传播发展到何种程度时应该停工也不是很清楚。
“我们在车里呼吸着流通不畅的空气，会有细菌交换，”他说。 “然而我们收到的健康提示跟其他人一样。”
拉莫斯还担心，如果病毒蔓延的趋势持续，“底线崩塌”只是时间问题，届时司机将拉不到足够的乘客维持生计。另一方面公司还是把零工人员当成合同工，也得不到失业补偿。
Gig Workers Rising计划接下来几天里继续收集签名，然后确定下一步行动。
“这次疫情影响巨大，”加州阿拉米达市一位Uber和Lyft司机表示，他担心遭到报复所以要求匿名。 “必须迅速采取行动，因为有太多人面临风险。”（财富中文网）
译者：梁宇
审校：夏林
Drivers and delivery people for companies including Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash are are banding together to petition for paid time off, amid rising concerns about the coronavirus. The group of more than 900 gig workers is asking California policymakers to require companies to immediately implement paid sick leave for workers who are still being treated as contractors.
In the petition, the workers say they are often on the “front lines of exposure,” given that every day they come in contact with various people, including those arriving at airports or heading to the hospital. Without paid sick leave, the gig workers say they are often forced to choose between making ends meet and taking care of their health, and therefore the health of the company's customers.
“We are without a safety net, bottom line,” says Edan Alva, a Lyft driver. Gig companies “know they should be responsible… but they’re avoiding it.”
The gig companies say they’re working to protect both customers and workers with new policies created in light of the coronavirus, which continues to spread across the nation and beyond.
The petition, led by a campaign called Gig Workers Rising, highlights the ongoing demands from workers who want to be considered employees. In January, a new law called Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) took effect, making it harder for companies like Uber and Lyft to classify workers as contractors. But the companies continue to keep their workers as contractors, choosing instead to push a ballot initiative that would provide an alternative to AB5.
Working Partnerships USA, a social change nonprofit, joined with various labor groups to created the Gig Workers Rising campaign in August 2018. Since then, the campaign has hosted protests over AB5 and Uber and Lyft’s initial public offerings. The coronavirus adds a new level of urgency to an old demand for sick leave, says Lauren Casey, a lead organizer of Gig Workers Rising.
“It really brings up questions about what happens in a society to workers who don’t have basic rights, like sick-time and access to healthcare,” she says. “Last week drivers were hearing about companies like Lyft and Instacart sending their employees home to work remotely—so there’s this juxtaposition of who is the priority.”
Uber, DoorDash, and Instacart say they will pay drivers up to 14 days if they are diagnosed with coronavirus or placed in quarantine by a public health authority. Lyft has a similar plan to pay drivers infected or officially quarantined, though they did not clarify the time period for which compensation would be provided.
Postmates says it has created a fund to credit its workers for the costs of doctors appointments and medical expenses related to coronavirus’s impact across more than 22 states. The company says it'ss also offering its customers the opportunity to get their food without any contact from their deliver person, who will drop their order off at the door. DoorDash is testing a similar feature.
But workers organizing the petition say these measures are not enough.
The problem is that in order to receive payment, they have to be diagnosed with the coronavirus. Many gig workers skip visiting the doctor when they’re sick, because they don’t have health insurance and can’t pay for the appointment out of pocket. On top of that, health officials recommend that if people feel sick, whether or not they have a diagnosis, they stay home. The petitioning workers say they don’t have that option.
Gig workers “have to choose between [their health] and making rent,” Casey says. “That’s a choice no one should be forced to make.”
Carlos Ramos, who drives full-time for Lyft, says he’s concerned that gig workers aren’t getting enough guidance about their job and at what point in the spread of the virus they should stop working.
“We’re in a box breathing each other’s air, and there’s germs being exchanged,” he says. “Yet we’re getting the same precautionary warnings as everyone else.”
Ramos is also concerned that if the trend continues, it will only be a matter of time before “the bottom falls out” and drivers won’t have enough passengers to make ends meet. Because gig companies are still treating their workers as contractors, they wouldn’t be able to claim unemployment.
Gig Workers Rising plans to continue to collect signatures over the next several days, when the group will determine its next steps.
“This virus is going to have a huge impact,” says an Alameda, Calif.-based Uber and Lyft driver who asked to remain anonymous out of fear of retaliation. “We have to act quickly because we’re risking a lot of people.”
