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Offline Kamaji

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New York Doubles Down on Delivery Wage Disaster
« on: October 12, 2025, 09:12:05 pm »
New York Doubles Down on Delivery Wage Disaster

After restaurant delivery drivers quit in droves and costs soared, the city is expanding minimum wage rules to grocery couriers.

C. Jarrett Dieterle
10.11.2025

In 2023, New York City became the first city in America to pass a minimum wage rate for app-based restaurant delivery drivers. Several other progressive cities have followed suit, resulting in a range of issues from rising delivery costs to many drivers dropping out of the workforce entirely. Now, the city that started it all is doubling down—this time on grocery delivery drivers.

In July, the New York City Council passed numerous bills that it claimed were designed to protect grocery delivery drivers. This legislative package introduced new rules, requiring delivery apps to include a 10-percent tipping option either before or at the time of the order (vs. afterwards, where the option exists now), and mandated that app-based platforms pay delivery drivers within seven days of the end of a pay period.

One of the most notable bills would extend New York City's minimum wage mandate from restaurant delivery drivers to drivers delivering groceries. The rate, first set at $19.96 per hour in 2023, has risen to $21.44 per hour. Though current Mayor Eric Adams eagerly endorsed the original law (saying at the time, "Our delivery workers have consistently delivered for us—now, we are delivering for them"), he surprisingly vetoed the new expansion. "Now is not the time to do anything that will further increase the cost for New Yorkers of obtaining groceries, when prices are already too high," Adams said in his veto statement.

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Source:  https://reason.com/2025/10/11/new-york-doubles-down-on-delivery-wage-disaster/
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Re: New York Doubles Down on Delivery Wage Disaster
« Reply #1 on: October 12, 2025, 09:24:11 pm »
If raising the minimum wage is good, then why not set it at $100/hr?
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