{"id":161288,"date":"2018-04-23T21:05:57","date_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=161288"},"modified":"2018-04-23T21:05:57","modified_gmt":"2018-04-24T01:05:57","slug":"solon-dares-grab-to-take-less-commission-from-drivers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/04\/23\/solon-dares-grab-to-take-less-commission-from-drivers\/","title":{"rendered":"Solon dares Grab to take less commission from drivers"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_119698\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119698\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12669589_1039876552735353_7735428937390095722_n.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119698\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12669589_1039876552735353_7735428937390095722_n.png\" alt=\"In a press conference, Nograles said Grab could reduce to 10 percent its commission, noting that the ride-haling service has an estimated gross income of PHP400 million monthly. (Photo: Grab\/Facebook)\" width=\"960\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12669589_1039876552735353_7735428937390095722_n.png 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12669589_1039876552735353_7735428937390095722_n-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12669589_1039876552735353_7735428937390095722_n-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/12669589_1039876552735353_7735428937390095722_n-768x768.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119698\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">In a press conference, Nograles said Grab could reduce to 10 percent its commission, noting that the ride-haling service has an estimated gross income of PHP400 million monthly. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/GrabPH\/photos\/a.537208633002150.1073741825.527357467320600\/1039876552735353\/?type=1&amp;amp;theater\">(Photo: Grab\/Facebook)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta (PBA) Partylist Rep. Jericho Nograles on Monday challenged ride-hailing service Grab Philippines to slash its 20 percent commission from its drivers by half.<\/p>\n<p>In a press conference, Nograles said Grab could reduce to 10 percent its commission, noting that the ride-haling service has an estimated gross income of PHP400 million monthly.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMas magaling pa kayong kumita kaysa sa lugaw (You earn better than porridge). [Grab Country Head] Bryan Cu and Grab are very consistent when they said na mahal na mahal nila ang kanilang (that they really love their) drivers,&#8221; Nograles said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would like them to prove their love by slashing their commission,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Nograles earlier revealed that Grab has been &#8220;illegally charging&#8221; its customers PHP2 per minute of travel time, contrary to the company&#8217;s claim that they have no hidden per-minute charges. He said Grab should refund its customers some PHP1.8 billion for overcharging in the past five months alone.<\/p>\n<p>The PHP2 per minute additional charge is on top of its flag-down rate of PHP40 and charge of PHP10 to PHP14 per kilometer.<\/p>\n<p>The Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board has ordered the suspension of the PHP2-per-minute travel charge imposed by Grab.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puwersa ng Bayaning Atleta (PBA) Partylist Rep. Jericho Nograles on Monday challenged ride-hailing service Grab Philippines to slash its 20 &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":119698,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,95],"tags":[24926,31456],"class_list":["post-161288","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-news-ph","tag-grab-philippines","tag-jericho-nograles","mauthors-filane-mikee-cervantes","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161288","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=161288"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/161288\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/119698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=161288"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=161288"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=161288"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}