Ride-share company Uber filed a legal petition Friday against the New York City Taxi and Limousine Commission about upcoming driver pay rate increases.
The rate increases the petition is seeking to halt were approved in mid-November by the commission. They are supposed to go into effect Dec. 19.Under the adjustments, the per-minute rate is slated to go up over 7%. The per-mile rate is supposed to go up nearly 24% compared to what the transportation costs component of the metric was when the original rate was adopted in 2019, according to a city government document.
In a notice, the New York Taxi and Limousine Commission projected that with the new rates, high-volume for-hire services drivers would receive at least for a 7.5-mile trip that lasts 30 minutes, which would be "up more than $4.00 from the original rates and up more than $2.50 from the current rates." Uber driver Karim Amrani sits in his car parked near the San Francisco International Airport parking area.
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