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DoorDash to Pay $131M for Underpaying Delivery Workers in New York City
- On Tuesday, DoorDash reached a $131.5 million settlement with New York City's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection over pay rule violations affecting roughly 264,000 Dashers. Mayor Zohran Mamdani called it "a historic settlement for workers."
- Violations involved missed or late payments to Dashers, alongside a separate dispute over how DoorDash calculated pay for workers logged into the app but not actively delivering orders.
- The settlement allocates $12.3 million for underpaid or late-paid Dashers, $16.7 million as a fine to the city, and more than $83 million to resolve the on-call pay dispute.
- DoorDash attributed errors to technical bugs and complex delivery situations like orders crossing city boundaries, stating it has corrected software issues and bolstered internal compliance processes.
- NYC enforces a $22.13 minimum hourly pay floor as of April 2026, with the Mamdani government treating enforcement as a priority and planning to extend this requirement to all delivery apps by early 2027.
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‘We Screwed Up’: DoorDash Agrees to Pay $131.5 Million to NYC Delivery Workers
Delivery giant DoorDash agreed to pay a $131.5 million settlement after New York’s worker and consumer protection agency found the company had unlawfully withheld wages from thousands of delivery workers who were paid late or not at all. A majority of the settlement funds will go directly to the approximately 260,000 deliveristas who were stiffed […]
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