{"id":177,"date":"2024-04-09T13:59:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-09T13:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/?p=177"},"modified":"2024-06-11T14:01:12","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T14:01:12","slug":"gothamist-nyc-delivery-workers-say-apps-are-making-it-harder-to-tip-a-new-bill-could-change-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/04\/09\/gothamist-nyc-delivery-workers-say-apps-are-making-it-harder-to-tip-a-new-bill-could-change-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Gothamist: NYC delivery workers say apps are making it harder to tip. A new bill could change that."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-delivery-workers-say-apps-are-making-it-harder-to-tip-a-new-bill-could-change-that\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Yi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Food delivery apps would be required to allow customers to tip when they&#8217;re ordering instead of after they get their food under new legislation from a New York City lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilmember Shaun Abreu told Gothamist he plans to introduce two relevant measures during the City Council&#8217;s scheduled meeting on Thursday. The first would return the tipping option to checkout on delivery apps and the second would require the minimum gratuity suggestion to be set at 10% of an order&#8217;s cost.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is the most common sense bill for not only Deliveristas but consumers, and it comes at no cost to employers,\u201d Abreu, who represents parts of Upper Manhattan, said in an interview. \u201cWe noticed almost immediately that these apps engaged in a clear attempt to retaliate against minimum pay.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/nyc-delivery-workers-say-apps-are-making-it-harder-to-tip-a-new-bill-could-change-that\">here.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>By Karen Yi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Food delivery apps would be required to allow customers to tip when they&#8217;re ordering instead of after they get their food under new legislation from a New York City lawmaker.<\/p>\n<p>City Councilmember Shaun Abreu told Gothamist he plans to introduce two relevant measures during the City Council&#8217;s scheduled meeting on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/2024\/04\/09\/gothamist-nyc-delivery-workers-say-apps-are-making-it-harder-to-tip-a-new-bill-could-change-that\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":152,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/152"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shaun-abreu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}