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NYC Council Expected to Pass Bills to Boost Pay for Grocery Delivery Workers
NEW YORK CITY, JUL 13 – The new law sets minimum pay at $21.44 per hour for grocery delivery workers and mandates tipping options and timely payments for app-based delivery services.
- On July 14, 2025, the New York City Council approved legislation extending wage protections to approximately twenty thousand individuals delivering groceries through third-party apps.
- These bills build on prior 2021 legislation that secured a $21.44 minimum hourly pay rate for food delivery workers due to concerns about low earnings and poor working conditions.
- The new laws require third-party services like Instacart to meet or exceed the current minimum wage, mandate tipping options at order time starting at 10%, and ensure workers are paid within seven days of the pay period.
- Instacart described the legislation as "unconscionable" and warned it could increase grocery delivery costs by 46%, while delivery workers and advocates called it a milestone for dignity, pay, and safety.
- The expanded protections suggest a continuing city effort to improve delivery workers' conditions amid a growing delivery industry, with officials and companies engaging in further negotiations.
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NYC Council expected to vote Monday on wage and workplace protections for delivery workers
The NYC Council is expected to vote on various items at its Stated Meeting on July 14, including wage and workplace protections for delivery workers. Council members will vote on a list of legislative items that would benefit delivery app workers. Among the items on the docket include a bill sponsored by Council Member Shaun Abreu to require third-party food and grocery delivery services to offer a tipping option of at least 10% of the purchase …
New York City Set to Expand Minimum Pay Law for Delivery Workers
The City Council is expected to pass a package of bills on Monday expanding legislation that improved working conditions for food delivery workers to include nearly 20,000 grocery delivery workers. A groundbreaking package of bills passed in 2021 set a minimum pay and addressed difficult working conditions for app-based food delivery workers, but only those who delivered food from restaurants through apps like Grubhub, DoorDash and Uber Eats. Th…
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