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Council approves protections for app-based drivers, including notice and appeal rights

New York City Council · December 19, 2025
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Summary

Intro 2-76-A, championed with the New York Taxi Workers Alliance, creates notice, just-cause, and appeal protections for high-volume for-hire vehicle drivers facing deactivation; sponsors framed the law as restoring due process against unilateral platform deactivations.

Council Member Shekhar Krishnan and allies urged adoption of Intro 2-76-A to prohibit high-volume app-based for-hire platforms from…

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