DoorDash has agreed to a $131.5 million settlement with New York City regulators after admitting to underpaying or delaying payments to thousands of its delivery workers. The settlement follows an investigation by the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection into wage violations, particularly concerning how DoorDash calculates pay for the time drivers spend waiting for orders. A significant portion of the settlement, $83 million, addresses disputes over compensation for idle time between deliveries, which New York law requires to be paid. DoorDash attributed the errors to complex changes in minimum wage laws, technical glitches, and multi-stop delivery routes. The company acknowledged that these mistakes affected about 264,000 workers, with $6.6 million in wages never reaching them and another $5.7 million being delayed. DoorDash has since fixed the software issues and stated that local workers earn about $30 per active hour on average.
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‘We screwed up’: Doordash admits underpaying New York workers
