{"id":33824,"date":"2024-08-01T13:48:53","date_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:48:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/?p=33824"},"modified":"2024-08-01T13:48:53","modified_gmt":"2024-08-01T13:48:53","slug":"mayor-adams-secures-agreement-with-uber-lyft-to-put-money-back-into-drivers-pockets-by-drastically-reducing-lockouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/archives\/33824","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Adams secures agreement with Uber, Lyft to put money back into drivers’ pockets by drastically reducing lockouts"},"content":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013 New York city Mayor Eric Adams and New York city Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Commissioner David Do announced that the city has secured agreements from rideshare companies Uber and Lyft to drastically reduce access restrictions \u2014 commonly known as \u201clockouts\u201d \u2014 that have resulted in reduced earnings for New York City\u2019s for-hire drivers since mid-May.<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u201cOur Uber and Lyft drivers deliver us where we need to go, and now it\u2019s time for us to deliver for them by helping them earn a decent wage,\u201d said Mayor Adams.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe will always go to bat for working-class New Yorkers, and the deal we\u2019ve secured today will put money in the pockets of hard-working drivers and help them continue to afford to live in the greatest city in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOur priority is to provide relief to the city\u2019s drivers as quickly as possible, without having to go through a lengthy and likely contentious rulemaking process that could prolong their suffering. This deal is the shortest possible path towards that relief,\u201d said TLC Commissioner Do.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt the same time, we have prepared a robust rule package designed to disincentivize access restrictions, and we are absolutely prepared to introduce that should it become necessary.\u201d<\/p>\n

New York City\u2019s for-hire vehicle drivers were the first drivers in the nation to receive mandated minimum pay, which guarantees that drivers get paid for time spent between trips.<\/p>\n

It also discourages rideshare companies from flooding the market with too many drivers. Additionally, the Adams administration has implemented the nation\u2019s first minimum pay rules for delivery workers, which resulted in a 64 percent increase in pay when comparing the first quarter of 2024 to the first quarter of 2023.<\/p>\n

Under today\u2019s agreement, Uber will immediately begin phasing out access restrictions for drivers using its platform, with the goal of ending them entirely by Labor Day if Lyft maintains an annual company utilization rate (the time drivers spend with a passenger) of at least 50 percent \u2014 a figure that is reduced when companies like Uber and Lyft onboard too many drivers.<\/p>\n

As part of the agreement, both companies will also pause onboarding for new drivers, as this helps to increase utilization rates and allows more work for existing drivers. Lyft will minimize lockouts as the onboarding pause continues.<\/p>\n

Supporting the city\u2019s taxi and for-hire drivers has been a cornerstone of Mayor Adams\u2019 administration.
\nShortly after Mayor Adams assumed office, the administration launched the Medallion Relief Program Plus, which has provided $468 million in debt relief for over 2,000 medallion owners. In order to secure a pay increase for taxi drivers, in late 2022, the TLC passed the first taxi meter fare increase in 10 years.<\/p>\n

The Adams administration also successfully secured pay increases for Uber and Lyft drivers in March 2023 and February 2024. In tandem with the Green Rides Initiative \u2014 which requires that all rideshare vehicles be zero-emissions or wheelchair accessible by 2030 \u2014 the administration also lifted the licensing pause on electric vehicle licenses, allowing nearly 10,000 drivers to own their small business and save thousands of dollars in rental costs.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis agreement will allow us to immediately reduce and aim to soon eliminate platform access restrictions for existing drivers,\u201d said Josh Gold, senior director of policy and communications, Uber.<\/p>\n

\u201cLyft supports an environment that allows New York City drivers to earn whenever and however they want while driving on the Lyft platform,\u201d said Megan Sirjane-Samples, director of public policy, Lyft. \u201cWe never want to enact supply controls, and we will continue to work with TLC in the best interest of drivers.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NEW YORK \u2013 New York city Mayor Eric Adams and New York city Taxi and Limousine Commission (TLC) Commissioner David Do announced that the city has secured agreements from rideshare companies Uber and Lyft to drastically reduce access restrictions \u2014 commonly known as \u201clockouts\u201d \u2014 that have resulted in reduced earnings for New York City\u2019s […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":32914,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1469,31,1378],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-new-york","category-news","category-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33824"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33825,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33824\/revisions\/33825"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/32914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vosa.tv\/eng\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}