Takeaways

• New York City continues to enforce the City’s Delivery Worker Laws, with key amendments taking effect 01.26.26, expanding protections for third-party delivery workers, as legal challenges to the new laws progress in federal court.
• The new laws extend the minimum pay rate to cover third-party grocery delivery workers and strengthen worker protections in various other areas, including requiring restaurant- and grocery-delivery apps to offer a tipping option at checkout.
• Federal judges denied certain business entities’ motions for preliminary injunctions, rejecting their attempts to block the amendments from taking effect.

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Federal judges have refused to block implementation of amendments to New York City’s Delivery Worker Laws, which mandate the minimum pay rate and other requirements for certain workers of third-party food delivery services. Accordingly, these businesses must continue to comply with the Delivery Worker Rules.

On Sept. 10, 2025, the New York City Council voted to override then-Mayor Eric Adams’ vetoes and enact legislation extending minimum pay requirements and other protections to third-party grocery delivery workers performing work for third-party grocery delivery services (aka “grocery delivery apps”) generally consistent with those already in place for third-party food delivery workers performing work for third-party food delivery services (aka “restaurant delivery apps”). See our article, NYC’s Expanded Minimum Pay...

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