Supporting the Need for a Connecticut Rideshare and Delivery Driver Minimum Pay Standard

The proposed legislation, Connecticut SB No. 1180, which would implement minimum pay standards for Transportation Network Company (TNC) rideshare and delivery drivers, should be passed into law.

CNYCA studies on the subject have supported the implementation of for-hire vehicle minimum pay standards in other jurisdictions, and have verified its beneficial impact to both driver compensation and service delivery. However, SB 1180 should learn from the experiences of applying these other standards, and provide clear and regular state enforcement authority and data access, and allow for periodic revisions of per-minute and per-mile factors to account for increases in the cost of living, and do so without language that would label affected workers “non-employees.”

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