Online food delivery firms DoorDash (NYSE:DASH), Uber Eats (UBER) and Just Eat Takeaway’s (OTCPK:JTKWY) Grubhub filed a lawsuit against New York City on Thursday in an attempt to block a new law that sets minimum wages for food-delivery workers.

The legal action was fired off ahead of a law due to go into effect on July 12 that requires online delivery companies to either pay workers around $0.50 for every minute they spend on a trip or a minimum of $17.96 per hour for the time they spend active on each app. Both those pay scales would exclude any tips earned. The current system is that workers are paid a rate per trip that is set by each app.

The online delivery specialists claimed the new law establishes a minimum wage higher than other industries and is flawed in the arrangement could could lead to multiple apps paying a worker for the same hours.

DoorDash (DASH) issued a statement on Thursday with an explanation that it joined industry peers in filing filing litigation against the City of New York to send a "clear and unmistakable message" that bad policies cannot go unchallenged.

Shares of DoorDash (DASH) were down 3.97% at 1:35 p.m. Uber Technologies (UBER) was down 3.66%. In London trading, Just Eat Takeaway (OTCPK:JTKWY) dropped 5.25%. Investment firm HSBC still has Just East Takeway.com rated at Buy and recently listed it as its top European food delivery stock.

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