Empowering App-Based Workers Act

Sponsor: Brian Schatz (Democratic-HI)July 28, 2025

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Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.

App-based workers would get more information about their pay and how apps work, and ride-hail companies would face a cap on their share of fares.

This bill would make app-based companies more transparent about how they pay workers and set prices for customers. It would require them to share details about their electronic monitoring and automated decision systems. For ride-hail services, it would cap the amount the company can keep from each fare at 25%, aiming to ensure fairer pay for drivers.

What Would Change

Today, app companies often use hidden algorithms to determine worker pay and customer prices, and they can keep a large percentage of the customer's payment. After this bill, app companies would have to clearly explain how their systems work, provide detailed pay information to workers and customers, and ride-hail companies would be limited to keeping no more than 25% of a fare.

Key Provisions

Requires app companies to tell workers how electronic monitoring and automated systems affect their pay and work assignments.
Requires app companies to provide workers with detailed receipts after each job and weekly pay statements.
Requires app companies to disclose to customers how much of their payment goes to the worker and how much the company keeps.
Requires app companies to report aggregated worker data to the Secretary of Labor quarterly and publish it publicly in an anonymized, searchable format.
Caps the amount ride-hail companies can keep from a customer's payment (the 'take rate') at 25%.
Bans app companies from offering different pay for similar tasks unless based on specific cost differences or union agreements.

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S 2488 · 119th Congress · July 28, 2025 · AI Summary by gemini-2.5-flash · 10/10

Lobbying Activity

6 filings mentioned this bill

Top Lobbying Clients

FLEX ASSOCIATION

2 filings

DOORDASH, INC.

2 filings

GRUBHUB HOLDINGS INC.

2 filings

Top Lobbying Firms

1.FLEX ASSOCIATION2 filings

2.DOORDASH, INC.2 filings

3.GRUBHUB HOLDINGS INC.2 filings

Amounts reflect total quarterly lobbying spend reported to the Senate, not bill-specific spending. Source: Senate LDA filings.

6 filings mentioned this bill

Top Lobbying Clients

FLEX ASSOCIATION

2 filings

DOORDASH, INC.

2 filings

GRUBHUB HOLDINGS INC.

2 filings

Top Lobbying Firms

1.FLEX ASSOCIATION2 filings

2.DOORDASH, INC.2 filings

3.GRUBHUB HOLDINGS INC.2 filings

Amounts reflect total quarterly lobbying spend reported to the Senate, not bill-specific spending. Source: Senate LDA filings.