Gig jobs can be good jobs.

But that won't happen until the companies Pay Up.

We want to protect the flexibility & convenience of the gig economy — while also making sure companies don't use it as an excuse for dramatically low pay, tip theft, and black-box pay algorithms.

We're coming together around these demands for new laws to secure basic rights for gig workers:

1) Pay floor of minimum wage + expenses, with tips on top

Pay on gig apps is low, and it's getting lower. We need outside accountability: laws that say every job being offered by an app must meet the basic requirement of paying enough to make the time — and gas, car maintenance, and other costs — that we spend on it worth the while. Gig apps should be held to a pay floor of at least minimum wage + expenses for every hour we spend with an active job, and direct compensation for mileage at the IRS rate. And tips should always be on top of pay, not factored in, because a tip is a tip — it's extra.

2) Flexibility

Apps talk a lot about flexibility. But for workers, it's more than just a talking point. We need real protections for our flexibility, like the right to reject or accept the jobs we want without being penalized for going below a certain "acceptance rate," and the right to control our time.

3) Transparency

Workers deserve to know if the offers we're getting are worth our time, and how our pay really adds up. Every offer should include all the important info up front, like pay, tips, locations, estimated time, estimated miles. And we need pay stubs that break down all that info so we can do the math ourselves and keep companies accountable.

More than 14,000 gig workers have joined the Pay Up campaign. Lawmakers across the country are listening. So let's tell them: here's what we need. It's time for companies in the gig economy to #PayUp.