The gig economy has yielded record amounts of revenue and profit this year for companies such as DoorDash, Amazon and Walmart but not much has trickled down to workers, many of whom make less than minimum wage, or worse, fall below the poverty line. The low wages are a human rights violation, according to a United Nations poverty expert who’s calling on CEOs of these corporations to recognize that workers are not being paid enough, as Vice reports.
In many cases workers are not only unfairly compensated, but also unfairly treated. They’re not categorized as workers, which is part of how corporations are getting away with paying such criminally low wages. The UN expert writes:
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