Instacart is suing New York City in an attempt to roll back new worker protection and transparency laws before they take effect next month, which would, among other things, require the grocery delivery service to pay workers $21.44 an hour.

“If the local laws take effect, they will irreparably harm Instacart,” reads the company’s complaint filed Monday against the city, its Department of Consumer and Worker Protection (DCWP) and its commissioner, Vilda Vera Mayuga. “Instacart will be forced to overhaul its platform and business model in the city.”

The suit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, targets Local Law 124, which essentially acts to include grocery delivery companies in Local Laws 107, 108, 113 and 123, which were passed to improve working cond

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