Uber CEO Khosrowshahi at a meeting with the Economic Club of New York in New York City in the United States in December last year. — Reuters
Uber Technologies Inc's chief executive on March 23 called on US President Donald Trump to include independent drivers and delivery workers in the country's planned US$1tril (RM4.4tril) coronavirus stimulus package and urged US lawmakers to change labour laws in the long term.
Lawmakers in Washington are discussing a deal to pump more than US$1tril into the economy to limit the economic damage caused by the coronavirus health crisis, in addition to the hundreds of billions of dollars in fiscal and monetary stimulus that has already been deployed to prop up the world's largest economy.
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