UBER AND LYFT TELL MINNEAPOLIS BYE-BYE

By Bob Walsh

 

                                       

The Minneapolis city council recently voted to require that Uber and Lyft pay minimum wage to it's drivers as employees.  The mayor vetoed it.  The city council over-rode the veto.  In response both Uber and Lyft announced that they would be withdrawing their services from Minneapolis effective May 1.

Both companies announced that they are moving to support preemptive state level legislation that would invalidated the local ordinance.  

The ordinance specifically requires that drivers get $1.40 per mile, 51 cents per minute and $5 per ride.