With the end of the city’s emergency order last October, those temporary benefits are set to expire on April 30. The council is considering making those benefits permanent and giving them to more people.
On March 20, councilmembers voted 3 to 0 to move the proposed legislation out of the Finance and Housing Committee, with Councilmembers Teresa Mosqueda, Lisa Herbold and Andrew Lewis voting in support and Alex Pedersen and Sara Nelson abstaining.
“When this body provided basic sick time for gig workers at the beginning of the COVID pandemic, it changed the lives of drivers,” said Drivers Union president Peter Kuel, whose organization represents Uber and Lyft drivers across
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