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DoorDash Ordered to Pay $17 Million in Stolen Tips to New York Delivery Drivers

HeadlineFeb 26, 2025

In a victory for labor rights, the food delivery app DoorDash 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 DoorDash 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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