India, Sept. 23 -- DoorDash has admitted it "screwed up" and has agreed to pay $131.5 million to settle a New York City investigation that found the company underpaid or delayed payments to more than 264,000 delivery workers. The settlement, announced Tuesday, includes nearly $115 million in worker relief, a $16.7 million civil penalty, and three years of city monitoring.

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani called the agreement as the largest labor enforcement action in the city's history.

He accused DoorDash of using "greedy algorithms" that failed to comply with the city's 2023 minimum-pay law for app-based delivery workers.

In his post on X, Mamdani wrote, "DoorDash has ripped off more than 260,000 NYC delivery workers. We're making ...