Instacart leads effort to kill minimum pay for grocery delivery workers, threatens legal action if Mayor Adams signs it into law

Grocery delivery service app Instacart is leading a campaign to derail a City Council bill that would expand minimum pay protections to grocery delivery workers, threatening it may sue if Mayor Eric Adams does not veto the measure.

In a July 22 letter sent to Mayor Adams, Instacart Chief Corporate Affairs Officer Dani Dudeck claimed the bill, known as Intro. 1135-A,