A temporary order bolsters efforts by apps to stop a law that would require them to pay delivery workers $17.96 an hour and make New York the first major U.S. city to set a wage floor for them.
Claudia Irizarry Aponte, The City
A planned pay increase for tens of thousands of delivery workers hit a roadblock Friday, after a Manhattan judge stalled the rollout of a landmark minimum wage law — days before it was set to take effect.
Manhattan Supreme Court Judge Nicholas Moyne issued a temporary restraining order a day after DoorDash, Grubhub, Uber and Relay filed suit to stop the new law that was supposed to take effect July 12.
The four app-based delivery companies — which account for nearly all the food deliveries in the city — are aiming to stop the law that would require them to begin paying delivery workers $17.96 an hour and make New York the first major U.S. city to implement pay requirements for its estimated 60,000 delivery workers.
By siding with Uber Technologies, Moyne’s order temporarily vacates the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection’s June 12 rule, which would provide a significant boost from the estimated $11 per hour delivery workers currently earn.
It is not clear when, or if, the new pay rate will take effect.
In a statement, the head of the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection said she was “extremely disappointed” at the delay in implementing the minimum pay rate.
“These apps currently pay workers far below the minimum wage, and this pay...
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