New York City reached a settlement with the gig delivery platform DoorDash that will bring $115 million to the city’s drivers and create a new monitoring system of the company’s pay practices.
The deal resolves allegations that DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 drivers. The city said it was the largest labor enforcement action in its history.
“When a worker earns a wage, they deserve to be paid that wage — not tomorrow, not after a lawsuit, but on time and in full,” Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a statement Tuesday.
The settlement also includes more than $16 million in civil penalties.
Simply put, we screwed up,” the company said in a statement. “Our mistakes meant some Dashers were underpaid or paid late. While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay.”
Absolute bullshit. Unintentional pay “mistakes” would also include a statistically huge percentage of overpayments, but when has that ever happened? What’s more there’s no question a significant portion of their drivers complained about the wage theft but Doordash ignored their “mistaken” underpayments until the city got involved.
This is systemic, deliberate wage theft that would have continued in NYC without Mamdani.
imagine doing a widdle, oopsy-doopsy, fucky-wucky of
$131million.
This is is less than $450 a person
Which is why they thought they could get away with it.
For the overwhelming majority of the country, that kind of money will make/break them. If you steal $450 out some people’s pockets, you better ready to take a punch for it.
Wage theft is the largest kind of theft in America.
exactly right… an “unintetional mistake” does not take a class action lawsuit to be addressed
The Center and the Right gonna be stewing so hard off that image of Mamdani. He looks so very winning here, plus Trump had to be nice to him since theres an election coming up
Exceedingly Boss
I’m seriously afraid one of the Magat nutcases is going to shoot him.
Mamdani Delivers
Another Mamdani W along with his team.
Gettin’ shit done, my Man
New York, protect this man with your life!
Really showing that someone competent in office can actually achieve quite a bit
Let’s fine the shit out of companies that don’t pay their staff what they are required to though
*Reduces opportunity for worker exploitation.
131m slaps on the wrist. where is the billions and in full with interest. these are so weak.
dd and uber lyft inflate prices by 20% all day everyday and also their commission cut of the fare is about 30-40%+ extremely high for a platform actually. 10% or less and time goes on should be the default not more and more take from the services while charging higher and higher prices.
131m is better than nothing but is a ongoing issue its not a mistake or a screw up it is deliberate criminal theft. shut the companies down and ban them completely there are replacements everywhere its not a loss. the workers would work on any platform introduced anyway as these apps provide almost no value.
If I were Mandani I would let all other companies low it is time to check their accounts and pay back anything missing voluntarily, then pass stupid large fines for any underpayment of workers
