DoorDash to pay $131.5M to settle wage theft affecting 260,000
- On Tuesday, Sept. 22, DoorDash agreed to pay $131.5 million to settle a New York City investigation into underpaid delivery Workers, stating, "Simply put, we screwed up."
- New York City introduced a delivery pay rule in 2023, which DoorDash failed to comply with due to errors caused by "technical bugs" or "complicated situations," such as partially fulfilled orders.
- Approximately 264,000 Dashers will receive payments under the settlement, with a median payout of around $48, while $83 million resolves pay calculation disagreements and $16.7 million covers DCWP fines.
- Simpluris, a third-party settlement administrator, will email Eligible Workers with payment details, while DoorDash guarantees a minimum of $10 to each impacted individual in the coming weeks.
- DoorDash stated it fixed technical issues, including better banking information validation, and strengthened its compliance program to ensure all future payments to Workers are accurate and timely.
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FILE – A delivery worker rides his bicycle along a path on the West Side Highway in New York on March 16, 2020. (AP Photo/John Minchillo, File) ASSOCIATED PRESS NEW YORK — DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to settle claims that it underpaid delivery workers in New York City, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Tuesday. The...
For years, immigrants who work as delivery workers have reported that DoorDash has paid them less than they deserve. Now the city announced a historic settlement that seeks to compensate them. On Tuesday, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Samuel Levine, the commissioner of the Department of Consumer Protection and the Worker (DCWP, by their acronyms, [...]
What’s Missing From Coverage of the Massive DoorDash Worker Settlement
This op-ed is part of Cafe, TPM’s home for opinion and news analysis. Last week, New York City announced a groundbreaking $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash. The largest such resolution in city history, the case involved over 260,000 workers who were paid late and in some cases not paid at all. It also raises the question: If these underpayments happened in New York City, where DoorDash knew it was under scrutiny, what’s happening to gig w…
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New York PostMamdani’s Claimed Triumph Over DoorDash ‘Corporate Greed’ Isn’t All It Seems
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants New Yorkers to think he got DoorDash, one of the country’s biggest food delivery companies, to pay a huge $131.5 million settlement to its workers at his command. “DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 workers, and today we are getting that money back,” he boasted last week. Headlines aside, that’s hardly the […]
POLITICS: Mamdani’s triumph over DoorDash ‘greed’ isn’t all it seems
Mayor Zohran Mamdani wants New Yorkers to think he got DoorDash, one of the country’s biggest food delivery companies, to pay a huge $131.5 million settlement to its workers at his command. “DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 workers, and today we are getting that money back,” he boasted last week. Headlines aside, that’s hardly the full story. Yes, DoorDash made a mistake. Mayor Zohran Mamdani signing a ceremonial check at a press co…
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