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- Swiggy rider drags food delivery box on road after being paid Rs 35 for 6.2 km trip. Video goes viralA Swiggy delivery partner allegedly dragged his food box after a 6.2 km trip for Rs 35, sparking online debate about gig worker pay. While ...
- Nothing Dickensian about gig workGig work offers significant livelihood generation and worker agency in India. Platform companies are crucial for this ecosystem. While work...
- Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal enters new arena of debate: Capitalism, class divide and gig economyAmid backlash over gig worker strikes, Eternal CEO Deepinder Goyal sparked a wider debate by defending capitalism and the gig economy on so...
- Social security code draft outlines insurance, pension for gig workers: ReportAccording to the draft rules, gig and platform workers should be engaged with an aggregator for at least 90 days in a financial year to qua...
- Gig workers’ strike revives debate on 10-minute deliveryMore than 200,000 delivery workers operating for platforms such as Zomato, Blinkit, Swiggy, Instamart, Zepto, Amazon and Flipkart went on a...
- Internet splits over Deepinder Goyal’s comments on gig economy after strikeDeepinder Goyal's comments on the gig worker strike on Christmas and new year's eve went viral on social media and invited arguments both f...
- Gig workers’ strike: Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal defends 10-minute deliveriesZomato CEO Deepinder Goyal defended the company’s 10-minute delivery model after gig workers’ strikes raised safety concerns. He said fast ...
- 50,000 gig workers participate in strike in Hyderabad, unions claimAbout 50,000 of the total two lakh gig workers in Hyderabad participated in the strike called on Wednesday by the unions demanding better p...
- Celebrities, netizens show solidarity with gig workers as New Year's Eve strike intensifiesWhile the Telangana Gig and Platform Workers' Union (TGPWU) and Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) claimed that lakhs ...
- Rajya Sabha MPs Manoj Kumar Jha, Raghav Chadha urge PM intervention as gig workers intensify nationwide strikeAs gig workers intensify their protests across the country, the two parliamentarians flagged issues of fair wages, unsafe delivery models, ...
- Gig workers from Maharashtra likely to join strike, police monitoring developments: OfficialsGig and platform workers from Mumbai and Maharashtra are expected to join a nationwide strike. This action is planned for New Year's Eve. W...
- Ecommerce, food delivery services largely unaffected by gig workers' strikeWhile at some places gig workers staged demonstrations, firms like Zomato, Swiggy offered more incentives to delivery partners, a standard ...
- Gig workers from Maharashtra likely to join strike, police monitoring developments: OfficialsAmid the strike call by gig workers' unions, police are closely monitoring developments to prevent any untoward incidents on New Year's Eve...
- Gig workers begin strike in Hyderabad, over 1.7 lakh set to join pan-IndiaHyderabad gig workers' strike: Several workers in Hyderabad gathered with placards and shouted slogans demanding better pay and safer worki...
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