{"id":118309,"date":"2026-01-31T13:10:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:10:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118309\/"},"modified":"2026-01-31T13:10:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-31T13:10:07","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-nyc-law-forces-delivery-apps-to-repay-5m-in-wages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/118309\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | NYC law forces delivery apps to repay $5M in wages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have announced that delivery apps will face penalties for violating New York City\u2019s minimum pay law.<\/p>\n<p>Uber Eats, Fantuan and Hungry Panda are among the businesses now required to pay restitution.<\/p>\n<p>Officials say Uber Eats will pay over $3.1 million to over 48,000 workers and reinstate up to 10,000 drivers who were wrongfully deactivated.<\/p>\n<p>Fantuan and Hungry Panda are also paying thousands to workers they are accused of underpaying.<\/p>\n<p>Mamdani and other city officials say this is part of a broader crackdown on delivery apps that shortchange workers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani and the Department of Consumer and Worker Protection have announced that delivery apps will face&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":118310,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,3342,14655,9,24,63,46085],"class_list":{"0":"post-118309","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-brooklyn","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-brooklyn-headlines","10":"tag-brooklyn-news","11":"tag-delivery","12":"tag-lawmakers","13":"tag-new-york","14":"tag-new-york-city","15":"tag-nyc","16":"tag-uber-eats"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=118309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/118309\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/118310"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=118309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=118309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=118309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}