“Often, there’s an algorithm that makes the decision so it’s not even a real person who’s making the decision to deactivate the worker.”
DoorDash and Instacart fire workers by locking them out of the app, sometimes for refusing too many orders. Seattle now requires 14 days notice and bans firing people for not taking enough orders. The apps still won an exception for “egregious behavior” during drafting. It took a 6-2 council vote to establish that a person deserves a warning before software ends their income.