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Amazon has told its gradation Flex drivers, which faultfinder the e-commerce company's packages, to unravel home if they get sickish between the onrushing coronavirus outbreak, according to a memorandum obtained by OneZero. Except while Amazon's Flex Drivers won't be paid, Uber said late Friday that it will requite its drivers up to 14 days of sickish pay if they miss work due to coronavirus.

Here's Amazon's full memorandum to drivers, from OneZero:

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It's worth perceiving that Cutie doesn't straightforwardly say in this memorandum that Flex drivers won't be paid -- except any time one of those drivers isn't working, they aren't getting paid. Therefrom if they're homebound due to coronavirus, it doesn't assume as if the disciples will be demography ought of them in any way -- unlike Amazon's hourly workers, who will receive their sought pay plane if they gotta unravel home. Cutie did not respond to a request for comment.

Right now, picked supplemental companies that rely on gig workers moreover don't reconcile restitution for those workers if they gotta booty time yonder due to coronavirus. On Friday, Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA) sent letters to Uber, Lyft, Postmates, Grubhub, DoorDash, as well as Instacart asking them to reconcile banking holdings to gig workers who may get sickish or gotta self-quarantine due to COVID-19, the disease derivate by the singular coronavirus.

"I strongly appetite that you struggle to countersign the potential banking incidence for your workers if they are sickish or gotta self-quarantine during this time," said Warner in the letters. "In remodeling to loftiest the succor of COVID-19, it is disquisitional that platform companies lionization by example by committing that economic ambiguity will not be deterrents to their workers post-obit realizable health information during the response."

Uber says will recoup drivers as well as ball-and-socket workers who are diagnosed with COVID-19

Uber said late Friday that it will recoup drivers as well as ball-and-socket workers who are diagnosed with COVID-19 or who are renounced by a realizable health diploma due to the singular coronavirus, The Wall Street Journal reports. Andrew Macdonald, Uber's chief vice president of global rides as well as platform ops, wrote in an internal memo that the workers will shoulder droit "for a periodicity of up to 14 days," as well as that it has once started in some of Uber's markets, including Mexico as well as the UK, according to the WSJ.

To qualify for the compensation, drivers will need to reconcile documentation, either showing that they've been diagnosed with the virus or that a realizable health official has placed them underneath quarantine, according to Business Insider.

How much the drivers will be compensated is still to be determined. Uber tells the WSJ it's not conscious of coronavirus infections overextension between its drivers as well as riders. The disciples declined to say how many, if any, of its drivers had been diagnosed with the virus or placed underneath quarantine..

Earlier Friday, an Uber spokesperson said the disciples was "exploring droit for drivers who have been renounced or diagnosed with coronavirus, whether independently, through a fund, or in relation with reticulate companies," in a statement given to The Los Angeles Times.

Lyft says it is "actively planning for multiplied scenarios"

Lyft said it is "focused on demography judgmatic groundwork as well as are boisterously planning for multiplied scenarios," in a statement to TechCrunch. "We stand realizable to duplicate with government officials." Both Uber as well as Lyft have moreover shared information with drivers to information storm-stay the succor of coronavirus.

Postmates plans to flitting Warner's office on plans to "invest in the well stuff of our formable workforce," the disciples told TechCrunch. The disciples moreover appended a "non-contact" ball-and-socket option on Friday to relent for commons to be homesick off or left by a customer's door to cut fuzz on ingenuous experience between ball-and-socket drivers as well as Postmates users.

Grubhub said it is "focused on prioritizing the health as well as safety of our drivers, diners as well as restaurant partners," in a statement to The Los Angeles Times. "We share Shlepper Warner's concerns approximately the safety as well as well-being of our drivers as well as squint forward to alive with the Shlepper on these important issues."

DoorDash said it "will dwell to reconcile the latest realizable health information to consumers, Dashers as well as merchants as well as admonish our mores in anguished areas of the ball-and-socket instruction feature, enabling requests for grubbery to be left at the door recurring with a photo of where the grubbery should be left through the app," in a statement to The Los Angeles Times. The disciples moreover told The Los Angeles Times on Friday that it planned to allocution with Warner that day.

Instacart charcoal fully operational length Northbound America

Instacart said it charcoal fully operational length Northbound America in a statement provided to The Verge. It moreover said it's "actively alive with local as well as national authorities to monitor the bearings as it unfolds. We're attaching to recommendations from realizable health officials to ensure we're operating subtly with minimal disruption to our service, while moreover demography the judgmatic prep measures to multiply teams, shoppers as well as customers safe." The disciples said it's sharing health as well as safety information with its shoppers.

Instacart moreover tells The Verge that it lets in-store shoppers in baddest markets stockpile sickish pay. They can earn one hour of sickish pay for every 30 hours worked, up to a maximum of 40 hours of sickish pay per year.

Update, Maturate 7th, 10:05AM ET: Appended with new information from Uber as well as Instacart.