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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.

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[-] spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works 214 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Simply put, we screwed up,” the company said in a statement. “Our mistakes meant some Dashers were underpaid or paid late. While these mistakes weren’t intentional, that doesn’t make them okay.”

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 126 points 6 days ago

imagine doing a widdle, oopsy-doopsy, fucky-wucky of

$131million.

[-] empireOfLove2@lemmy.dbzer0.com 46 points 6 days ago

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 29 points 6 days ago

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 7 points 6 days ago

This is is less than $450 a person

[-] SkyezOpen@lemmy.world 21 points 6 days ago

Which is why they thought they could get away with it.

[-] SailorFuzz@lemmy.world 10 points 6 days ago

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 88 points 6 days ago

Wage theft is the largest kind of theft in America.

[-] doben@lemmy.ml 7 points 6 days ago

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 17 points 6 days ago

That quote reads just like something an LLM would say after it broke containment. Pathetic!

[-] albbi@piefed.ca 8 points 6 days ago

Probably was someone asking a LLM to write an apology suitable for media.

[-] Jhex@lemmy.world 11 points 6 days ago

exactly right… an "unintetional mistake" does not take a class action lawsuit to be addressed

[-] TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world 56 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Mamdani Delivers

[-] BigMacHole@thelemmy.club 54 points 6 days ago

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 21 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

-LITERALLY Republicans!

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 11 points 6 days ago

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 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

DemonCrat

I'm a fan of this kind of reclaiming, its been bigly amusing

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 44 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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 14 points 6 days ago

I'm seriously afraid one of the Magat nutcases is going to shoot him.

[-] HobbitFoot@thelemmy.club 3 points 6 days ago

Trump doesn't have to be nice with Mamdani; Mamdani just knows how to manipulate Trump.

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 1 points 6 days ago

They've got over 20 seats coming up for the November election, he knows he needs to behave until they have those secured

[-] scytale@piefed.zip 34 points 6 days ago

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 11 points 6 days ago

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

[-] ImgurRefugee114@reddthat.com 25 points 6 days ago

It's amazing what politicians can do when they aren't fucking you constantly

[-] dudeface@lemmy.world 24 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

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

[-] UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world 23 points 6 days ago

New York, protect this man with your life!

[-] cheese_greater@lemmy.world 22 points 6 days ago

Gettin' shit done, my Man

[-] Suavevillain@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

Another Mamdani W along with his team.

[-] JustPlainDave@lemmy.zip 9 points 6 days ago

I wish he'd been born here.

[-] minorkeys@sh.itjust.works 10 points 6 days ago

*Reduces opportunity for worker exploitation.

[-] Bonifratz@piefed.zip 25 points 6 days ago

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 5 points 6 days ago

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 points 6 days ago

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 points 6 days ago

I would have been an abolitionist…party of Lincoln… BLM is racist…etc

or

I want to benefit off of human exploitation

Pick one.

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 points 6 days ago

I'm sure their attorneys will be thrilled

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