A proposal to set mandatory pay levels for Connecticut rideshare drivers faltered in the state Senate Wednesday night when it was passed only after its substance was replaced with language ordering a task force to study the issue.
As advanced by the Labor and Public Employees Committee, the bill would have required rideshare companies like Uber, Lyft, and Doordash to pay drivers either $1.30 per mile and $36 per hour or at least 85% of each fare, not including fees, taxes, and tips.
Although the bill passed on a partisan 22-12 vote, those requirements were stripped in favor of a working group to study transparency and minimum wage standards for rideshare and delivery drivers. Sen. Julie Kushner, a Danbury Democrat who co-chairs the labor panel, said the study group could be used to inform future legislative action.
“We determined that there were many issues that have been raised about rideshare drivers and delivery drivers and that it would be useful for us to have a task force that brought together parties with different perspectives and work on the issue, study the issue, and determine what recommendations might be made,” she said.
The proposal represented the legislature’s most recent attempt to address what has become an annual push by rideshare drivers, who have clamored for better pay and benefits.
The task force treatment is a routine legislative tactic often used to provide consolation to proponents of bills that lack the support to be voted into law. Study group...
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