If a bill setting minimum pay for drivers is signed into law, Uber will cease operations outside of the Twin Cities on August 1 and only offer premium rides in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area, the company says.
, which was sent to Walz on Sunday after passing the House and Senate, would require digital ride-hailing companies like Uber and Lyft to pay drivers a $5 fee and at least $1.45 per mile—or $1.25 per mile outside the Twin Cities area—as well as $0.34 per minute for any time spent driving customers.
The bill would also create a process through which drivers could request a review if they feel they have been wrongly removed from their jobs. If the bill is signed into law, Uber will stop operating service outside of the Minneapolis-St. Paul metro area, where it will only offer “premium products”—along with premium prices—starting August 1, spokesperson Freddi Goldstein told, arguing the proposal “will make it impossible to continue serving most areas of the state.”
Goldstein said the company had tried to work with lawmakers for “several months” to create legislation that would provide “flexibility and benefits to drivers without compromising service for riders,” but the requests went unanswered., and when asked about rideshare companies’ threats to leave the state, he said he takes them “seriously but also somewhat skeptically.”to offer higher wages and more benefits to ride-hailing drivers and other gig economy workers.
the Minnesota Reformer that he can’t predict the future if Uber greatly reduced services in terms of jobs that would be lost, but argued the governor should sign the bill because “it’s the right thing to do.”
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