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On Thursday, Uber Eats, DoorDash and Grubhub sued New York City in an attempt to block a landmark rule ensuring a minimum wage for delivery workers from going into effect on July 12.
The minimum pay rate, which would increase the pay for delivery workers to $17.96 an hour in July and nearly $20 an hour by April 2025, comes after a three-year campaign by Worker’s Justice Project (WJP) and Los Deliveristas Unidos, a worker-led movement to increase pay and improve working conditions for delivery workers in New York City.
“I feel fortunate to have been one of the people who fought for a better life for ourselves, and so that delivery workers can be finally recognized and be treated to a life with dignity,” Sergio Ajche, co-founder of Los Deliveristas Unidos, said when the rule increasing the pay for delivery workers was announced.
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Because app-based delivery workers are classified as independent contractors rather than employees, they were not previously entitled to a minimum wage or reimbursements for expenses. Currently, delivery workers make an average of $7.09 an hour in a city before tips, where, according to CNBC, a yearly salary of $78,524 is needed to live comfortably in the metro area.
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