DoorDash Will Pay $131.5 Million For Missing And Miscalculated NYC Delivery Worker Wages
The company blames technical errors and a difference of opinion on how wages should be calculated for pay irregularities.
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New York City has announced that DoorDash will pay $131.5 million as part of an enforcement action for violating the city's minimum wage and delivery work protection laws. The settlement covers late or missing payments for delivery workers, civil penalties and specifically "over $83 million to resolve a disagreement over how to calculate pay for time Dashers spend online between deliveries," DoorDash said in a separate announcement on its website.
The enforcement is the result of an investigation conducted by New York's Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP), based on reports from workers of late or missing payments for completed deliveries. As part of the settlement, workers will receive more than $115 million total, with more than 260,000 affected workers receiving compensation "calculated at approximately 200 percent of...
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