Commissioner Levine discusses delivery worker protections and enforcement
Levine highlights new tipping protections, a $131.5 million enforcement action against DoorDash, and efforts to protect workers from arbitrary deactivation.
Now turning to the topic of today's hearing.
At the start of this year, we celebrated the passage of laws to advance protections for delivery workers, including tipping protections and an expansion of the minimum pay rate to more workers.
Our tipping report, which showed two major apps, engineered design tricks to make it harder for consumers to tip and drove down worker pay by more than half a billion dollars, exemplified the need for these laws.
More recent reports show that these new tipping protections have lifted workers'total earnings on the delivery apps by more than $100 million and on course to hit $184 million by the end of the year.
Earlier this year, we secured more than $5 million from three major delivery apps and reinstatement for up to 10,000 wrongful
We terminated workers.
This work is only accelerating.
Just last week, we announced a historic $131.5 million enforcement action against DoorDash, the largest worker protection enforcement in the history of New York City, for systemic violations of New York City's delivery worker laws.
More than $115 million will go directly to over 260,000 delivery workers.
And by arming workers with tools to report trip data directly to DCWP, we are both investing in worker power and ensuring that these massive violations will not recur in our five boroughs.