“When a worker earns a wage, they deserve to be paid that wage — not tomorrow, not after a lawsuit, but on time and in full”. “DoorDash underpaid more than 260,000 workers, and today we are getting that money back. This is what it looks like when City government stands with working people: we find the violations, we enforce the law and we make sure workers get what they’re owed. No corporation is above the law, and this administration will keep fighting until every worker gets the pay and protections they deserve.”  These were the words of New York City Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani on 22 September, when the agreement to protect delivery riders was signed.

This agreement is the largest ever reached for delivery workers in the history of American local government, signed by DoorDash, one of the main American digital delivery platforms, and the local Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP). The company had been accused primarily of:

• failure to pay and/or delayed payment to thousands of workers for the work they had carried out.
• breach of the minimum pay rate. In this regard, DoorDash had increased the hourly pay to match the minimum pay rate in December 2023; however, several pay components, such as travel t...