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.
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