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Drivers for delivery apps like DoorDash and Instacart are now entitled to minimum pay in Seattle, based on a law that took effect Saturday. Mayor Bruce Harrell is celebrating the law that the City Council passed in 2022 with the aim of boosting wages for gig workers, while app companies are blasting the policy and citing it as a reason to raise fees on customers. Designed to help workers delivering meals, groceries and packages through apps make the equivalent of Seattle’s minimum wage or more, the law requires app companies to pay at least 44 cents per minute plus 74 cents per mile during ord…

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