DoorDash has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a tip-withholding case brought by the New York attorney general. The settlement will be distributed among 63,000 delivery workers who received unfair pay under DoorDash’s guaranteed pay model that ran from May 2017 to September 2019.

New Yorkers placed more than 11 million delivery orders with DoorDash during that period, James said, adding that about 63,000 New York delivery workers are expected to benefit from the settlement. In resolving the probe,

The ubiquitous food delivery app DoorDash will pay almost $17 million to settle claims that it unfairly used customer tips to subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York, rather than let d