The new NYC minimum wage law faced criticism and lawsuit following the possible impacts on app-based food delivery service workers.
New NYC Minimum Wage Law for Delivery Service Workers Receives Criticism and Faces Lawsuit Following Possible Impacts
Following the announcement of the new NYC minimum wage law for food delivery service workers, many individuals and groups expressed their opposition to the NYC minimum wage law changes and claimed that it would only negatively affect and hurt delivery workers.
With the new NYC minimum wage law, food delivery services, including Grubhub, Uber Eats, and DoorDash, filed a lawsuit against the state to prevent the implementation of the NYC minimum wage law as they know that the rules in increasing the minimum wage would hurt consumers and delivery workers over time.
The food delivery services also claimed that the NYC minimum wage law proved that New York City assumed delivery workers would not be affected by the new rules, AP News reported.
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New Rules in NYC Minimum Wage Law Will Only Hurt Food Delivery Service Workers and Their Salaries
Under the new NYC minimum wage law, apps can decide how they want to pay the food delivery service workers, wherein workers can expect to be paid per hour or trip as long as the salary matches the minimum wage according to the NYC minimum wage law.
Critics of the NYC minimum wage law claimed that food delivery service workers deserve to receive fair pay for the hard work and the struggles they always face just to provide good quality services to their customers.
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