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.
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.
Wage theft is the largest kind of theft in America.
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.
imagine doing a widdle, oopsy-doopsy, fucky-wucky of
$131million.
Having worked in a few corporations, I guarantee you there are corps are making big oopsies of much larger dollar amounts daily
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.
This is is less than $450 a person
Which is why they thought they could get away with it.
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.
exactly right… an “unintetional mistake” does not take a class action lawsuit to be addressed
That quote reads just like something an LLM would say after it broke containment. Pathetic!
Probably was someone asking a LLM to write an apology suitable for media.