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.
37 Comments
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 179 pts · 12h
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.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 105 pts · 12h
imagine doing a widdle, oopsy-doopsy, fucky-wucky of
$131million.
empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 39 pts · 12h
Having worked in a few corporations, I guarantee you there are corps are making big oopsies of much larger dollar amounts daily
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 11h
You're not wrong. My wife works in liability. She's seen some fucking doozies. While it is true that companies do fuck up royally on an entirely too regular basis, it is rare to have a mayor step in on the side of the municipal working class and take their side in a dispute. Far more often, you need a crew of privately retained lawyers working the class to shake it out in your favor.
Akh@lemmy.world · 6 pts · 9h
This is is less than $450 a person
SkyezOpen@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 9h
Which is why they thought they could get away with it.
SailorFuzz@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 8h
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.
Kirp123@lemmy.world · 80 pts · 12h
Wage theft is the largest kind of theft in America.
doben@lemmy.ml · 4 pts · 6h
The fact you‘re forced to do wage labour is the largest theft of capitalism, period. Extracting the surplus value of your productivity … something something Marx Das Kapital.
Wage theft is just more of that, since you won‘t do shit about it. Except, … if you organize to build power and leverage. Only then there might be a chance to change things for the better.
SarahValentine@pawb.social · 18 pts · 12h
That quote reads just like something an LLM would say after it broke containment. Pathetic!
albbi@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 10h
Probably was someone asking a LLM to write an apology suitable for media.
Jhex@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 9h
exactly right… an "unintetional mistake" does not take a class action lawsuit to be addressed
TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world · 50 pts · 12h
BigMacHole@thelemmy.club · 45 pts · 12h
151 MILLION DOLLARS for people like ME? I can't WAIT to vote This SOCIALIST OUT! That money Belongs to RICH PEOPLE!
-LITERALLY Republicans!
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 17 pts · 11h
Even the Republicans didn't vote Republican that election cycle. Trump told them to vote for the DemonCrat Andrew Cummo. So Staten Island lined up for him, in one of the most bizarre elections I've lived through.
To walk into Hempstead in 2024 and say "All of you will be Cuomo voters by the end of next year". Fuckin' A, man. What a joke.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz · 10 pts · 10h
Well they all knew an R would have a hard time winning against Mamdani and Cuomo is pretty much a DINO anyway I guess?
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 9h
I'm a fan of this kind of reclaiming, its been bigly amusing
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 38 pts · 9h
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
spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works · 11 pts · 8h
I'm seriously afraid one of the Magat nutcases is going to shoot him.
HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club · 1 pts · 5h
Trump doesn't have to be nice with Mamdani; Mamdani just knows how to manipulate Trump.
scytale@piefed.zip · 32 pts · 11h
That’s around $442 for each driver. Since they settled with the city, does that mean there’s no law firm that will get a cut of most of the money in fees?
AI_toothbrush@lemmy.zip · 12 pts · 9h
I mean in new york thats very little but its a step. You cant fix everything all at once but considering everything this is a huge step. Finally theres a bit of good news with mamdani, magyar peter, the swedish right coalition losing, canada getting closer to the eu, etc. Just a few good things in this shitstorm
UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world · 24 pts · 11h
New York, protect this man with your life!
dudeface@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 12h
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
cheese_greater@lemmy.world · 21 pts · 12h
Gettin' shit done, my Man
ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com · 14 pts · 6h
It's amazing what politicians can do when they aren't fucking you constantly
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 9 pts · 11h
*Reduces opportunity for worker exploitation.
Bonifratz@piefed.zip · 22 pts · 11h
I saw some comments like that, but without irony. Like "this will just make Doordash leave NYC".
If a company only works by exploiting people and breaking the law, that company should not exist, it's as simple as that. People will find other, healthier ways to get food into their homes.
minorkeys@sh.itjust.works · 3 pts · 7h
Then they can leave and free up whatever resources they were using up, for someone who can run a business that doesn't exploit their workers. I don't know why we are supposed to fear a wealth extraction system if it leaves and stops extracting our wealth.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social · 3 pts · 9h
I live in NYC and I have no idea why anyone who lives here even needs the app.
Every restaurant that delivers has a menu and a phone number.
idiomaddict@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 10h
or
Pick one.
JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip · 8 pts · 7h
I wish he'd been born here.
frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io · 6 pts · 11h
Monitoring system of their pay practices is interesting, I assume if they fuck around after the settlement it would be more likely to bring criminal charges?
Malica@lemmy.zip · 0 pts · 8h
I'm sure their attorneys will be thrilled
kingkong@lemmy.world · -7 pts · 12h
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.
dudeface@lemmy.world · 14 pts · 12h
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
FishFace@piefed.social · 2 pts · 8h
What billions? Article says drivers are being paid double what they were stiffed out of.