A delivery worker alliance and a labor union have filed criminal complaints against Uber Technologies Inc and Uber Eats Taiwan executives, accusing them of underpaying workers who handle multiple deliveries.The complaints, filed yesterday with the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office, target Uber Technologies CEO Dara Khosrowshahi, Uber Eats Taiwan chairwoman Michelle Georgette Parker, the platform's Taiwan general manager and several local corporate representatives.The National Delivery Industry Union and an alliance promoting Taiwan food delivery industry rights accused Uber Eats of knowingly adopting an unlawful payment formula for so-called "stacked orders," in which a courier delivers two or more orders in a single trip.
Representatives from the National Delivery Industry Union and a Taiwan food delivery industry rights alliance file criminal complaints against Uber Technologies Inc and Uber Eats Taiwan executives at the Taipei District Prosecutors’ Office yesterday.
The company has been underpaying couriers while leading them to believe they were being compensated in accordance with the new Delivery Workers’ Rights Protection and Delivery Platform Management Act (外送員權益保障及外送平台管理法), which Uber Eats pledged to comply with, the groups said.Alliance spokesperson Su Po-hao (蘇柏豪), who is also a delivery worker, said that Uber Eats knowingly failed to pay the legally required minimum despite being aware of the act, which took effect on July 21.
