New York Food Delivery Minimum Pay Rule Is Cleared by Court (1)

Uber Technologies Inc., DoorDash Inc. and Grubhub Inc. will have to pay New York food delivery workers at least $17.96 an hour after they failed to convince an appeals court to block the minimum pay rule.

A state appeals court on Thursday rejected efforts by the companies to overturn a September decision by a judge allowing the rule to go into effect. It had been temporarily delayed pending the decision. The ruling forces delivery services to either pay couriers the flat hourly rate or pay per delivery at about 50 cents a minute.

The pay increase is one of ...