DoorDash, Uber file lawsuits against New York City's minimum wage law

Seeking to strike down New York City's novel law setting a minimum wage for delivery workers, Uber Technologies, DoorDash Inc and other app-based food delivery companies have filed lawsuits on Thursday...

The new law will require companies to pay delivery workers $17.96 an hour, which will rise to nearly $20 in April 2025..

The companies in a separate complaints in New York state court claimed that the law is based on a misunderstanding of how the food delivery industry works..

Uber told a New York state court on Thursday that its food delivery business Uber Eats was joining competing apps DoorDash and Grubhub in an effort to halt the rule by the citys Department of Consumer and Worker Protection..

Food delivery apps would need to increase the number of trips completed per hour to absorb the new labor costs, forcing them to shrink service areas and harming consumers and restaurants, the companies said..

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