New York's $131.5 million settlement with DoorDash includes $12.3 million of pay that went missing or arrived late, and more than $83 million for a disagreement over calculating time logged into the app. DoorDash says it reserved the money in prior quarters.
Perspective Coverage
4 publishers
- Builder
- Builder 15%
- Operator
- Operator 50%
- Investor
- Investor 35%
Reality
- Evidence70
- Adoption
- Not scored
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives60
- Confidence72
New York City starts enforcing its rule that cancelling must be as simple as signing up
New York City can now fine companies $525 to $3,500 when cancelling a subscription is harder than signing up, under a rule in effect since October 1. Enforcement is already live, so checking the cancel path is this quarter's work for any company billing New Yorkers monthly.
Reality
- Evidence55
- Adoption30
- Hype gap+10
- Incentives45
- Confidence55
New York City's click-to-cancel rule is in effect, with fines from $525 per violation for businesses that make canceling harder than signing up. Subscription sellers with New York customers now have to let people leave through the same channel they joined.
Reality
- Evidence64
- Adoption35
- Hype gap+15
- Incentives58
- Confidence66
A disagreement over waiting-time math cost DoorDash $83 million in New York
DoorDash will pay $131.5 million to close New York City's minimum-pay investigation. Most of that money settles an argument over whose formula for paid on-call minutes was right; the unpaid and late wages the company admits to come to $12.3 million.
Reality
- Evidence42
- Adoption58
- Hype gap+22
- Incentives74
- Confidence61
Mamdani puts City Hall's referral machinery behind private-sector union drives
New York's Office of Worker Power gets a director who ran the United Auto Workers' organizing department and an order pushing three city agencies toward proactive labor investigations, while its budget and headcount stay unstated.
Reality
- Evidence61
- Adoption31
- Hype gap+27
- Incentives66
- Confidence54