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February 26, 2025

DoorDash Ordered to Pay $17 Million in Stolen Tips to New York Delivery Drivers
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In a victory for labor rights, the food delivery app Door Dash has been
ordered to pay nearly $17 million for secretly using customer tips to
subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York, instead of
allowing them to keep their tips on top of their guaranteed wages. The
payout will go toward thousands of Door Dash workers, most of whom are
immigrants, who made deliveries between May 2017 and September 2019. In
a statement, Gustavo Ajche, a leader with the group Los Deliveristas
Unidos, said on X, "I am proud of our fight and recovering this money
that belongs to the workers is a great victory. Personally, I am always
grateful to the thousands of New Yorkers for their [generosity], but we
are always on the sidelines of someone who wants to take advantage of
us, but we are here to fight for justice and dignity. si se puede !!!!"


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