New York City Council members voted to override the mayor’s vetoes of bills requiring third-party app companies to pay their grocery delivery workers a minimum wage of $21.44 per hour. The bills extend an existing wage mandate for restaurant delivery workers.
In 2021, New York City was the first in the country to pass legislation establishing various pay and other workplace protections for “food delivery workers,” or workers who contract with third-party food delivery services to deliver food, beverages, or other goods. Grocery delivery workers were not covered.
This legislation included protections such as preventing food delivery apps from charging food delivery workers fees to receive their pay, permitting food delivery workers to use restaurant bathrooms, requiring food delivery app companies to make insulated bags available to delivery workers, and creating greater transparency for workers about their tips and pay.
The legislation also required the New York City Department of Consumer and Worker Protection to evaluate the pay and...
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