Climatewire | James Jordan could work in almost any work in California, and the company could be protected by state rules that must provide high quality masks to their staff to block firefighters smoke.
James Jordan is the driver Uber.
This means that it is a contractor, not a worker, a huge dollar for dollars – and without the protection of the safety of employees related to security safety about safety of California.
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Companies like Uber and Lyft are part of the American disaster response. The two applications offered free rides to the inhabitants of Los Angeles to escape the fleet of lanternated large areas of the city.
But drivers who dare to harm often have little gear or training to protect themselves – or cyclists – from extreme weather.
GIG staff rights confirmed the Supreme Court of State for a California voter initiative as well. The result: Uber and Lyft are exempt from state-burning protections for staff, and companies don’t have to leave drivers sick, if they are sick of the breath of firefighters. The driver also cannot claim employee compensation if their lungs are irreparable.
“We help her brand, and we serve the community to be out of that danger, but we didn’t risk anything,” Jordan said Jordan who stretched Los Angeles Counties Healthy air quality warning And people asked “as much as possible in the interior.”
Each Uber and Lyft said Firefighters offered about 10,000 walks after tackling evacuation shelters. In response to what he did to protect Uber’s driver, a spokesperson said “drivers, messengers, and retailers with constant interviews to find the best way to get their help.”
Lyft has not responded to comment requests.
Both companies said their websites that their drivers cannot enter into active fire evacuation areas, but they didn’t say anything, in the dangers of fire pollution at this month It has reached more than 13 times Secure time limit for average daily exposure.
Lyft’s website Disaster access to reliefHe warns that the policies associated with riding with evacuation sites, “we prioritize the security of our drivers” and warns it.
The pages suggests the drivers “to use your best trial in assessing road conditions” and sharing with a loved location of users, “and where you are and can continue in real time.”
The page does not provide information whether drivers protect themselves or what they can do if they experience other symptoms of breath or smoke exposure.
That’s concern for Jordan, whose eyes and throat died during the rest of this month. He said he said that riders with breathing crops in the back seat.
“He assured me that he was a heart attack or nothing like that, but it was scary, I don’t know if the Asthma attack has attacked the asthma in the middle of a walk,” Jordan said.
Crossing California
The Jordan was not a Uber driver, it may be medical attention to the symptoms caused by smoke exposure and how it should know.
In 2019, California was established Underground regulations To limit the smoke of employees’s firefighters. The rules require employers to provide employees with N95 respiratoryia, when the air quality index for individual matter reaches 151, the “healthy” level is “healthy” to the general population. Can turn pollution contamination. The rules also require the importance of using the symptoms of use of symptoms of smoke to workers and the importance of using the respiratory masks that are not blocking smoke.
The California Department of Industrial Relations received more than 50 complaints about the rule that is violated in the first week of fires.
But the protections do not apply to contractors, like the rest of the Jordan and Gig staff. This is partly for the proposal 22 proposal, Uber and Lyft, Uber and Lyft, ordered employee salaries, as an independent contractor.
The ballot initiative also rejects contractors from other employees, including the minimum wage and schedule requirements and benefits of unemployment and employees.
Many employees have argued that the advantages prescribed by the voting initiative are not implemented. But The law enforcement has been proven to be complicated The Department of State Industrial Relations said the Jurisdiction to resolve work conflicts are aimed at employees – not GIG staff.
“If you are an employee of the grocery store that includes external carts, you need to give smoke and disease days and employee compensation. referring to a chronic lung disease. “But no one applies to employees or Uber drivers that may be the same food store. Because the contractors are independent”.
Los Angeles firefighters are an example of extreme weather events to jeopardize GIG staff.
“In front lines” of climate change
In September 2021, the remains of the Hurricane ID had a rain record, in the New York City, flooding the city’s storm system and floods, metro tunnels and basements.
Thousands of food delivery staff were caught by harming some of their electric bikes.
Because they were contractor, many had to make repairs, a group that helps organize delivery staff based on Los Spreadistas Unidos, the founder of Los Spreadistas Unidos, organizing applications based on applications in New York City.
Then in 2023, the delivery of the city of New York were exposed to Canadian firefighters, without maskless masks or training, Guallpa said.
“These employees are in the first lines of climate change because the workplace is on the streets, so they are smoke inhalation or those who are being flooded,” Guallpak said.
In Los Angeles, Jordan said he has to work harder to finish, due to fires. There are fewer cyclists than normal, he said, and many are taking shorter journeys, and it gets less money for it. He said he is doing longer days – up to 12 hours – he did the same amount in eight hours, about $ 200.
Smoke and the ash worries about damaging his car, flashing the “control engine” when pollution is particularly thickened.
He tries to protect himself by maintaining windows and wearing surgical masks – the type of home was at home. He knows that they are not very protective, but what he had.
Uber would communicate with his drivers. He wants better risk pays or masks – or “At least one thousand boys” to help these conditions and community “.
“That kind of messaging, we didn’t hear anything from them,” Jordan said. “(Us) Because you need money for the boys, they don’t expect corporations to have humanity”.
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