DoorDash agrees to pay $131.5M to settle New York City probe into delivery worker pay
DoorDash has agreed to pay $131.5M to settle a New York City investigation that found it underpaid delivery workers or paid them late.
The deal with the city’s Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) ends a dispute that began early in Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s administration.
“Simply put, we screwed up,” DoorDash said in a post about the settlement. “Our mistakes meant some Dashers were underpaid or paid late.”
“While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay. We pride ourselves on operational excellence at DoorDash – and this was not excellent, nor was it acceptable. Dashers should be paid in full, on time, every time. We are sorry to the Dashers we let down.”
Most of the money is tied up in a disagreement over when payments should be made. More than $83 million will go toward figuring out how to pay couriers who are logged into...
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