{"id":10713,"date":"2023-07-12T09:38:37","date_gmt":"2023-07-12T07:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/12\/tech-companies-block-wage-increase-for-new-york-city-delivery-workers\/"},"modified":"2023-07-12T09:38:37","modified_gmt":"2023-07-12T07:38:37","slug":"tech-companies-block-wage-increase-for-new-york-city-delivery-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/12\/tech-companies-block-wage-increase-for-new-york-city-delivery-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Tech companies block wage increase for New York City delivery workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Doordash, GrubHub, Uber and Relay lawsuits claim that the $17.96 per hour wage set to start on 12 July would deal blow to business<\/p>\n<p>A week before <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/new-york\">New York City<\/a>\u2019s app-based <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2021\/sep\/23\/gig-economy-doordash-grubhub-food-delivery\">delivery workers <\/a>were poised to see an hourly minimum wage increase, several tech companies fired a legal salvo that has temporarily delayed this change.<\/p>\n<p>Doordash, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/may\/18\/this-cant-be-real-grubhub-promotion-turns-new-york-city-restaurants-into-a-war-zone\">GrubHub<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/uber\">Uber<\/a> and Relay filed lawsuits in Manhattan state civil court on 6 July, alleging that a recently green-lighted $17.96 hourly minimum wage for app delivery workers \u2013 set to start on 12 July \u2013 would deal a blow to their business, also claiming it would harm this <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2022\/dec\/24\/new-york-storm-delivery-workers-winter-weather\">legion of workers<\/a>. Under this law, the minimum wage would <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2023\/06\/12\/nyregion\/nyc-delivery-workers-minimum-wage.html#:~:text=The%20city's%20more%20than%2060%2C000,an%20analysis%20by%20the%20city.\">increase<\/a> to some $19.96 for app delivery workers in 2025.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2023\/jul\/12\/food-app-delivery-workers-minimum-wage-blocked-grubhub-uber-doordash-new-york-city\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/d123fa4225222f7086d461fedcfd84285be000ee\/0_249_5749_3450\/master\/5749.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=72e8342de9dea9f44474678dd1a869ef\" title=\"Tech companies block wage increase for New York City delivery workers\" \/>Doordash, GrubHub, Uber and Relay lawsuits claim that the $17.96 per hour wage set to start on 12 July would deal blow to business<br \/>\nA week before New York City\u2019s app-based delivery workers were poised to see an hourly minimum wage increase, several tech companies fired a legal salvo that has temporarily delayed this change.<br \/>\nDoordash, GrubHub, Uber and Relay filed lawsuits in Manhattan state civil court on 6 July, alleging that a recently green-lighted $17.96 hourly minimum wage for app delivery workers \u2013 set to start on 12 July \u2013 would deal a blow to their business, also claiming it would harm this legion of workers. Under this law, the minimum wage would increase to some $19.96 for app delivery workers in 2025. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Doordash, GrubHub, Uber and Relay lawsuits claim that the $17.96 per hour wage set to start on 12 July would deal blow to business A week before New York City\u2019s app-based delivery workers were poised to see an hourly minimum wage increase, several tech companies fired a legal salvo that has temporarily delayed this change. &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2023\/07\/12\/tech-companies-block-wage-increase-for-new-york-city-delivery-workers\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Tech companies block wage increase for New York City delivery workers<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":10714,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}