STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 New York City\u2019s business community is making its latest push against regulatory legislation, this time targeting the city\u2019s last-mile delivery industry.<\/p>\n
Dennis Canale \u2014 the founder of Wired Delivery Service, a last-mile company based on Staten Island \u2014 said the City Council\u2019s Delivery Protection Act could lead to him going out of business.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis bill would actually restrict us so much, potentially putting us out of business,\u201d Canale said. \u201cWe operate on a family basis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Canale didn\u2019t offer specifics on which aspects of the bill would hurt his business, only saying it would cut into his revenue so significantly that it would no longer make sense to stay open. A report published Thursday says he is not alone.<\/p>\n
The report from engineering consulting firm AKRF found that the bill could impact hundreds of small businesses in the five boroughs, eliminate more than 10,000 local jobs in the worst-case scenario, and possibly double costs for the average e-commerce consumer. The Five Boroughs Jobs Campaign, a consortium of business organizations around the city, commissioned the study.<\/p>\n
John Neill, a senior vice president for economics and real estate at AKRF, said the biggest impact on the city\u2019s economy would be the delivery businesses simply leaving the five boroughs for parts of the metro area where they wouldn\u2019t have to abide by the new law.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey know it to be realistic, and in speaking with them that\u2019s basically what we\u2019re hearing would be their reaction to this bill,\u201d Neill said. \u201cThey would need to relocate outside of the city to service as they do today, and you know that\u2019s just not really a workable solution for a lot of these.\u201d<\/p>\n
The legislation reads largely as a licensing and worker protection bill, and proponents say it\u2019s necessary to regulate an industry that has largely operated with little local regulation since the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic swept the globe in 2020.<\/p>\n
Department of Consumer and Worker Protection Chief of Staff and Deputy Commissioner for External Affairs Carlos Ortiz submitted testimony to the City Council in April backing the legislation.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn the last decade, last-mile facility jobs have grown significantly in New York City, and companies in this space are benefiting from record profits,\u201d Ortiz wrote. \u201cEven though last-mile facilities subcontract work, they still maintain significant control of workers\u2019 schedules, workflow and lives, often times pressuring workers to reach unreasonable quotas without taking responsibility for any subsequent issues that arise.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. \u2014 New York City\u2019s business community is making its latest push against regulatory legislation, this…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278518,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[3342,9,24,63,24839,28021,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-278517","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-delivery","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-packages","tag-shipping","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278517","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=278517"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278517\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278518"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278517"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278517"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278517"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}