Wage and Hour, Delivery Drivers, Labor Regulations

NYC Council Passes Bills Expanding Minimum Pay Protections to App-Based Grocery Delivery Workers

Jackson Lewis P.C. on 7/25/2025

The New York City Council has passed a several bills that would extend pay and other protections to many more app-based delivery workers and entitle them to a minimum pay-rate of $21.44 per hour. In December 2023, New York...more

Littler Global Guide - Switzerland - Q4 2021

Littler on 1/19/2022

The High Court of the Canton of Vaude recently decided that the couriers of an online food ordering and delivery service are in fact employees. Very interestingly, the Court concluded that the digital platform leases them out...more

Proposition 22 Challenged in Oakland State Court

CDF Labor Law LLP on 2/12/2021

Last November, California voters convincingly (almost 60% supporting) enacted Proposition 22. This Proposition was a well-funded effort that allows gig drivers working for companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash to avoid the...more

Reasonable, Not Required: DOL Says IRS Mileage Rate Is Not Only Expense Reimbursement Method

Seyfarth Shaw LLP on 9/8/2020

Seyfarth Synopsis: The U.S. DOL has confirmed that there is no per se violation of the FLSA’s minimum wage requirement when low-wage employees are reimbursed for their use of a personal vehicle at a reasonable rate that is...more

Initiative to Overturn California Independent Contractor Law for App-Based Drivers, Deliverers Advances

Littler on 1/6/2020

On January 2, 2020, the Attorney General for the State of California released the title and summary of Initiative 19-0026—a proposed ballot measure that would overturn the state’s recently enacted independent contractor law,...more

Who’s Up Next? Now It’s Ride-Share and Delivery Companies’ Turn to File Suit Challenging California’s Controversial New...

Epstein Becker & Green on 1/2/2020

AB 5, California’s hastily passed and controversial independent contractor statute, which codifies the use of an “ABC test,” is set to go into effect on January 1, 2020. Already, the California Trucking Association has filed...more

California Ballot Initiative Would Remove Ride-Share and Delivery Drivers from the “ABC” Test

Epstein Becker & Green on 11/8/2019

As we wrote here recently, California’s Governor Gavin Newsom signed a bill known as AB5, which is designed to make it more difficult for companies to treat workers as independent contractors. The new law, which goes into...more

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