Seattle on Tuesday passed a first-of-its-kind, worker-backed minimum-wage ordinance for many of its 40,000 gig workers.
The nine-member City Council voted unanimously to approve the so-called PayUp policy, which will affect companies that provide on-demand delivery such as DoorDash Inc. DASH, -1.51%, Instacart, Amazon.com Inc. AMZN, +4.40% (Amazon Flex), Uber Technologies Inc. UBER, -1.99% (Uber Eats) and others. The measure now goes to Mayor Bruce Harrell, who plans to sign it.
“Gig workers deserve a fair shake and a fair wage,” the mayor said in an emailed statement. “We’re committed to making Seattle an affordable city where workers can thrive.”
Seattle City Councilmember Andrew Lewis, who co-sponsored the ordinance with Councilmember Lisa Herbold, said during the council’s discussion before the vote that “this is the first of measures to right-size the economy” because of the effects of gig work in the past decade.
Besides establishing a formula that is meant to give gig workers the equivalent of Seattle’s minimum wage of $17.27 an hour, the PayUp policy calls for workers to have the ability to reject offers without penalty, and for app-based-platform companies to provide a detailed breakdown of workers’ pay.
Working Washington, which pushed for the ordinance and whose victories have included helping secure a minimum wage for fast-food workers in Seattle, cheered another win Tuesday.
“Sub-minimum wages are history!” the group tweeted.
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