DoorDash will pay almost $17 million to settle claims that it unfairly used customer tips to subsidize the wages of its delivery workers in New York.

An investigation found the firm used customer tips to subsidize delivery workers’ wages between 2017 and 2019. More than 60,000 may be eligible for the payout.

DoorDash will pay nearly $17 million in a settlement after the food delivery platform used customer tips to subsidize the wages of New York delivery workers.

A New York probe found DoorDash secretly used tips to offset delivery worker salaries, New York Attorney General Letitia James said.

DoorDash has agreed to pay $16.75 million to settle a lawsuit by New York's attorney general accusing it of pocketing customers' tips for delivery drivers while misleading both customers and drivers about the practice,