The City Council plans to vote on bills ensuring grocery delivery workers receive protections under the city's restaurant-centric minimum wage law. Previously, workers for Instacart faced wage disparities compared to peers on restaurant apps. Activists from the Black immigrant community advocated for this change, emphasizing the importance of dignity and justice for these workers. The bills also aim to improve tipping transparency, pay protection, and safety within the delivery sector. Council members introduced these measures in response to prior reporting on injustices faced by delivery workers, anticipating positive outcomes from the legislation.
Activists in the city's Black immigrant community praised the Council's upcoming action as a move toward dignity for these workers. 'These bills represent more than policy - they are a step toward justice for communities who have too often been invisible in the workforce,' said Adama Bah, the founder of Afrikana.
In addition to closing the loophole in the minimum pay law, the bills on deck for a Monday vote address tipping transparency, pay protection and safety.
Those bills, Intro 1133 and Intro 1135, are set to pass Monday, addressing pay equality for delivery workers and ensuring they receive the minimum wage protections.
Council members Jennifer Gutiérrez and Sandy Nurse, both Democrats from Brooklyn, introduced bills that would require all apps that contract delivery workers to pay the deliverista minimum wage.
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