Uber Eats has agreed to pay more than $15 million to 16,120 drivers over alleged violations of Seattle’s pay transparency law for independent contracts and its minimum wage law for app-based workers.

The settlement is the largest reached by Seattle’s Office of Labor Standards, which is tasked with investigating alleged violations of the city’s many labor laws.

Mayor Bruce Harrell called the settlement “a major win for workers and a strong reminder that in Seattle, we hold large companies accountable when they sidestep their responsibilities and shortchange workers.”

Uber Eats was hit with violations of two city laws.

One, the Independent Contractor Protections Ordinance, requires entities like Uber and others that use independent workers disclose how much a job pays and the calculation

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