Overview
- The Delivery Protection Act would bar companies from contracting out core last‑mile warehouse and delivery work and require them to put those workers on their payroll.
- Supporters point to a comptroller report showing high injury rates and more crashes near last‑mile sites as a reason for the change while Amazon cites a recent drop in serious crashes after safety tech and coaching.
- Mayor Zohran Mamdani has publicly backed the Teamsters‑backed bill, creating intense political pressure as labor organizers rally and well‑funded opposition campaigns, tied to Amazon, continue to lobby against it.
- Opponents warn the law could eliminate dozens of small Delivery Service Partner firms that employ about 5,000 New Yorkers on Amazon contracts, raise household delivery costs, slow service, and push operations outside the five boroughs.
- Key outcomes hinge on the final City Council language, Department of Consumer and Worker Protection licensing rules, transition provisions such as retention mandates and per‑worker bonds, and likely court challenges.