Instacart Sues Seattle Over Delivery-Worker Virus Pay Law (1)

Instacart and the Washington Food Industry Association launched a constitutional challenge to a newly-enacted Seattle ordinance requiring food delivery companies to provide premium pay to gig workers during the Covid-19 pandemic.

City Council Bill 119799 unlawfully burdens WFIA members like Instacart by increasing their operational costs and threatening their economic viability in Seattle, according to the complaint filed June 26 in the Washington Superior Court for King County.

Instacart joined the WFIA’s challenge “to protect Seattle’s residents, shoppers, and grocers from this misguided legislation,” which will force food delivery companies “to unsustainably subsidize service in Seattle for years to come,” ...