{"id":64563,"date":"2025-07-14T09:58:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64563\/"},"modified":"2025-07-14T09:58:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-14T09:58:08","slug":"nyc-council-expected-to-pass-bills-boosting-pay-for-grocery-delivery-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/64563\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Council expected to pass bills boosting pay for grocery delivery workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday, July 14, 2025 9:37AM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"ABC7 New York 24\/7 Eyewitness News Stream\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Stream New York&#8217;s #1 news &#8211; Accuweather &#8211; original content 24\/7<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK (WABC) &#8212; The New York City Council is expected to pass a series of bills to boost pay that will include nearly 20,000 grocery delivery workers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The new legislation would require third party apps to pay workers $21.44 cents an hour and this would match the increase that food delivery workers received back in April.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Previous bills passed in 2021 set a minimum pay and addressed working conditions for app-based food delivery workers for companies like Doordash, Uber Eats and Grubhub.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Other protections that will be made available once the bill is signed into law, includes companies to provide an option in their apps to give at least a 10 percent tip, before or at the same time an order is placed and that the companies must pay workers within seven days of the end of a pay period.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The food delivery service industry boomed during the Covid-19 pandemic and has only grown since then with over 100 million deliveries from third party apps.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2025 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Monday, July 14, 2025 9:37AM Stream New York&#8217;s #1 news &#8211; Accuweather &#8211; original content 24\/7 NEW YORK&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":64564,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[46008,5229,16286,46007,46006,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,18543,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-64563","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-46008","9":"tag-america","10":"tag-doordash","11":"tag-food-delivery","12":"tag-grubhub","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-newyork","16":"tag-newyorkcity","17":"tag-ny","18":"tag-nyc","19":"tag-uber-eats","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114851001355222967","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64563\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}