Record #: O2023-239   
Type: Ordinance Status: Failed to Pass
Intro date: 1/18/2023 Current Controlling Legislative Body: Committee on License and Consumer Protection
Final action: 5/24/2023
Title: Amendment of Municipal Code Title 9 by adding new Chapter 9-116 regarding deactivation rights for transportation network providers and third-party delivery service network workers
Sponsors: Sadlowski Garza, Susan
Topic: MUNICIPAL CODE AMENDMENTS - Title 9 - Vehicles, Traffic & Rail Transportation - Ch. 116 Transportation Network Provider and Third-Party Delivery Service Network Worker Deactivation Rights
Attachments: 1. O2023-239.pdf
Related files: R2023-766
Refer to Committee on License and Consumer Protection Chicago Municipal Code Title 9


CHAPTER 9-116 Transportation Network Provider and Third-Party
Delivery Service Network Worker Deactivation Rights

9-116-010 Declaration of policy

It is declared to be the policy of the City of Chicago, in the exercise of its police powers for the protection of the public health, safety, and general welfare, and for the maintenance of peace and good government, to ensure that Network Workers can perform their services in a safe and reliable manner, and be protected from unwarranted deactivation, and thereby promote the welfare of the people who rely on such services to meet their transportation needs.


9-116-020 Definitions

For purposes of this chapter, the definitions in Chapter 9-115-010 are incorporated herein, and the following definitions shall also apply: i

"Compensation" means payment owed to a Network Worker by reason of providing services for or on behalf of a Network Entity.

"City" means the City of Chicago, Illinois.

"Deactivation" means blocking or restricting a Network Worker's access to the Network Entity driver platform, changing a Network Worker's status from eligible to provide Network Entity services to ineligible, or other material restriction in access to the Network Entity driver platform, food and beverage delivery, or rideshare opportunities that is effectuated by a Network Entity.

"Department" means the City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.

"Director" means the Director of the Office of Labor Standards, City of Chicago Department of Business Affairs and Consumer Protection.




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Refer to Committee on License and Consumer Protection

"Driver platform" means a driver or courier-facing application dispatch system software or online-enabled application service, website, or system, used by a Network Worker, that enables the prearrangement of passenger trips, or food and beverage delivery, for compensation.

"Net...

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