DoorDash agrees to pay $131.5 million in New York City to settle claims that it underpaid delivery workers, including missing or incorrectly calculated wages. New York City officials describe the matter as a historic settlement tied to compliance with minimum pay rules.
The outlets report that the company’s issues affect large numbers of workers—typically cited as more than 260,000 workers, with some reports also describing 200,000-plus affected workers. Several sources say much of the money will be returned to workers for wages that were underpaid, not paid, or paid late.
Outlets also differ slightly on the emphasis. Multiple reports say DoorDash attributes the problems to technical errors and disputes over how certain pay should be calculated, including how on-call or time spent online between deliveries is treated. In addition to resolving the wage-calculation disagreement, the settlement addresses the broader underpayment investigation, which Bloomberg frames as a probe into DoorDash’s minimum-pay compliance.
