DoorDash to pay NY delivery workers $17 million for using their tips to cover wages
DoorDash to pay NY delivery workers $17 million for using their tips to cover wages
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.
The company will pay $16.75 million in restitution that will be distributed to DoorDash workers who made deliveries between May 2017 and September 2019 in New York.
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Company steals millions of dollars. Years later, the company agrees to give the money back, while admitting no wrongdoing. Nobody's penalized. Nobody's arrested. Nobody's prosecuted.
Why do only companies, not ordinary thieves, get to steal stuff, keep it for years, then grudgingly give it back without penalty, without arrest, without prosecution?
Wage theft is considered a civil offense in most jurisdictions, not a criminal. It's by design, things like arrests and prosecution can only happen for criminal charges.
I think NY only very recently made wage theft classify as a larceny offense, under some circumstances.
I ain't doubting you 'cuz what do I know, but making wage theft only a civil, not criminal offense, is just another example of a system stacked for the wealthy and against real people.
Because some of the money they steal gets kicked back to the legislators that should be holding them to account. How much is a congressman's favor? $10k? 100k? Not a bad price when the ROI is in the millions.
Shit was fucked, even before Trump