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Council approves protections for app-based drivers, including notice and appeal rights
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 deactivating drivers except for just cause, a bona fide economic reason, or legal requirement, and to establish a notice and appeal process.
“Drivers deserve dignity and due process,” Krishnan said, describing the policy as a national model to curb unfair deactivations that leave drivers unable to repay vehicle loans. The item was adopted as part of the general orders; the clerk’s published results recorded Intro 2-76-A among the adopted items.
