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March 27, 2020 11:07 pm

Postmates couriers are eligible for unemployment benefits, rules New York appeals court




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New York’s Court of Appeals has reinstated a 2015 decision determining that couriers for on-demand delivery app Postmates should be classified as employees, making them eligible for unemployment insurance at a time when the US is seeing record job losses due to the coronavirus pandemic.


The 2015 decision by the state’s Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board originally found that a terminated Postmates courier, Luis Vega, should be classified as an employee and therefore eligible for unemployment benefits when he was kicked off the platform. That decision also required the company to pay into New York’s Unemployment Insurance Fund for that employee and for “all other persons similarly employed.”


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Original Link: https://www.theverge.com/2020/3/27/21197540/postmates-couriers-unemployment-benefits-new-york-appeals-court

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