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File #: Int 0737-2024    Version: Name: Establishing gratuity standards for food delivery workers and grocery delivery workers.
Type: Introduction Status: Laid Over in Committee
Committee: Committee on Consumer and Worker Protection
On agenda: 4/11/2024
Enactment date: Law number:
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing gratuity standards for food delivery workers and grocery delivery workers
Sponsors: Shaun Abreu, Julie Menin, Jennifer Gutiérrez, Lincoln Restler, Sandy Nurse, Christopher Marte, Shahana K. Hanif, Crystal Hudson, Oswald Feliz, Gale A. Brewer, Shekar Krishnan, Amanda Farías, Alexa Avilés, Diana I. Ayala, Chris Banks, Yusef Salaam, Nantasha M. Williams, Carlina Rivera , Tiffany Cabán
Council Member Sponsors: 19
Summary: This bill would require third-party food delivery services and third-party grocery delivery services such as Uber Eats and Instacart, to provide an option to pay gratuity that is at least 10 percent of the purchase price on each food or grocery delivery order.
Attachments: 1. Summary of Int. No. 737-A, 2. Summary of Int. No. 737, 3. Int. No. 737, 4. April 11, 2024 - Stated Meeting Agenda, 5. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-11-24, 6. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 11, 2024, 7. Committee Report 6/21/24, 8. Hearing Testimony 6/21/24, 9. Hearing Transcript 6/21/24, 10. Proposed Int. No. 737-A - 7/9/25

Proposed Int. No. 737-A

 

By Council Members Abreu, Menin, Gutiérrez, Restler, Nurse, Marte, Hanif, Hudson, Feliz, Brewer, Krishnan, Farías, Avilés, Ayala, Banks, Salaam, Williams, Rivera and Cabán

 

A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to establishing gratuity standards for food delivery workers and grocery delivery workers

 

Be it enacted by the Council as follows:

 

Section 1. Paragraph 4 of subdivision b of section 20-1522 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by a local law for the year 2025 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to protections for contracted delivery workers, as proposed in introduction number 1133, is amended to read as follows:

4. [Reserved] When providing an opportunity to pay a gratuity pursuant to paragraph 3 of this subdivision, a third-party food delivery service or third-party grocery delivery service shall provide a customer with gratuity options that may be set at the discretion of such service, provided that such gratuity options include an option to pay a gratuity that is at least 10 percent of the purchase price and an additional option that allows such customer to manually enter a different amount or percentage of such purchase price.

§ 2. This local law takes effect on the same date that a local law for the year 2025 amending the administrative code of the city of New York, relating to safe delivery device access for contracted delivery workers, as proposed in introduction number 30-B, takes effect.

 

 

 

 

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LS #15383

7/3/25