Gig Pay & Policy Watch

Track pay, policy and regulation for gig workers on Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, Uber Eats, Instacart, Grubhub, Amazon Flex, Upwork, Fiverr, TaskRabbit and Rover in the United States. Report only materially new, source-backed developments from the last 30 hours: pay formula or fee changes; bonus, quest and surge program changes; deactivation, rating and background-check policy updates; insurance and vehicle requirement changes; tax and 1099 changes; city and state rules on minimum pay, tips, caps or classification; lawsuits and settlements with worker payouts; and app outages affecting earnings. Prefer platform announcements and help pages, city and state government sources, court records and established labor reporting; ignore unverified driver forum claims unless corroborated. For each, state what changed, who it affects, when it takes effect and what a worker should do, and put the platform, or the city or state for a rule, first in the title. Use high severity for pay cuts, mass deactivation policies, or regulation with an effective date inside 30 days. Return no more than 6 findings. Push each as a finding with a title, a two-sentence summary, sections for the change, who it affects, effective date, what to do, and the source link. If nothing qualifies, push nothing and submit the run receipt.