Overview
- DCWP alleges Motoclick stole wages and tips, ignored minimum pay rules, charged a $10 fee on canceled orders, and deducted the full cost of refunded orders from workers’ pay.
- Commissioner Samuel Levine said the city will seek to shut down Motoclick and hold the company’s chief executive personally liable.
- The case seeks full back pay and damages for workers as part of a broader crackdown that city officials describe as an enforcement blitz.
- About 60 delivery platforms received compliance warnings ahead of the Delivery Worker Laws’ implementation on Jan. 26.
- A recent DCWP report found that moving tip prompts to after checkout on Uber Eats and DoorDash cut average tips to about $0.93 per order, costing workers over $550 million, and Motoclick has not responded to requests for comment.