"The Department of Consumer and Worker Protection, which oversees the 80,000-worker delivery industry, says it needs funding for 20 new employees to properly regulate app giants and ensure they pay the city-mandated minimum wage - but the Adams administration only allocated funding for four positions ... and then allocated even less during final budget negotiations with the Council. The shortfall has left the agency struggling to respond to worker abuse complaints - and to now sound the alarm against its own mayor,"
"The department had asked for the 20 new employees during preliminary budget hearings, but the budget left the agency hanging, part of a pattern of the mayor and Council neglecting the workers' rights department. That short-shrift started with the mayor's executive budget, released in May, which proposed a total DCWP budget of $75.1 million (the final adopted budget decreased that amount by around $56,000). As a result, the agency's budget comprises roughly 0.06 percent of the city's $115.9-billion budget."
Department of Consumer and Worker Protection oversees roughly 80,000 delivery workers and requested funding for 20 new staff to enforce minimum pay and regulate app companies. The Adams administration initially allocated funding for four positions and reduced that amount further in final budget negotiations, producing a shortfall. The funding gap limits the agency's capacity to respond to worker abuse complaints and to implement pending legislation regulating the app industry. Deputy Commissioner Elizabeth Wagoner warned that appropriate staffing is essential to realize the minimum pay rate. The agency's proposed budget was $75.1 million, about 0.06 percent of the city's $115.9-billion budget.
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