NYC legislation establishes minimum payment per trip for delivery drivers

Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats must now pay NYC delivery drivers a minimum payment per trip

New York City is quickly becoming one of the front lines in the battle for gig worker protections. 

In May 2020, the city enacted commission caps on third-party delivery services, limiting the amount they could charge partnering restaurants to 15% in an effort to help them weather the economic throes of the pandemic. About a month ago, it made those caps permanent. Predictably, the big three food delivery services, Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub, reacted the same way they did when San Francisco...

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Food delivery companies in NYC face permanent commission cap

DoorDash Grubhub Uber Eats and others face commission cap on delivery services in New York City

The gig economy is slowly but steadily becoming a nationwide battleground. Uber and Lyft, two of the industry’s power players, made headlines last month when a number of their drivers across the country took to the streets in protest, bringing national attention to what the protesters consider low wages and lack of protections for the workers. 

After the rideshare companies suffered a blow on the West Coast last week with the striking down of California’s Proposition 22 on worker classification,...

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