A new New York City bill seeks to protect delivery app workers and proposes to ban 15-minute delivery ads.
Once the pandemic became part of our daily lives, digital platforms were placed among the preferences of consumers, first, out of necessity, and then as a real alternative.
In this sense, applications such as Uber Eats, DiDiFood, Rappi, among others, won over consumers who, increasingly, are looking for services that provide them with comfort and receive their orders at the door of their homes.
However, during all these months and, practically since its inception, these platforms have also been involved in different controversies due to the lack of job security for delivery people.
Not recently, in December of last year, in New York City, an increase in the salary of delivery app couriers was announced, a change that will be made as of January 1, 2023, in accordance with what reported the mayor himself, Bill de Blasio.
The idea is to carry out a major restructuring for one of the sectors that have grown the most during the pandemic, but which still demand better treatment in their working conditions and, of course, wages.
Now, in a context in which we increasingly see how these services are positioned among consumers, in the city of New York itself it is seeking to provide more protection to the workers of these platforms and, for this, it has in mind a new bill.
Information published in new york post mentions that the initiative comes after companies such as Gorillas, Getir, Fridge No More and Jokr promised consumers deliveries at super fast speeds (in less than 15 minutes).
This promise made the deliverers go at high speeds and, in addition, break traffic laws to get to the delivery point as quickly as possible, which not only put their lives at risk, but also that of pedestrians.
Now, with this bill, the aim is to offer better security to delivery people and pedestrians themselves, as well as provide them with better health benefits, given that the promise to deliver in less than 15 minutes has been questioned by official Christopher Marte.
“We don’t think that should be legal”said Marte in reference to the announcements of the delivery applications of deliveries in 15 minutes. “We’re going to have a series of laws to create a lot more oversight and accountability.”
Let us remember that, among other services that are sought to be offered to these workers, are thermal insulation bags, weekly payments, information on the trips they have to make (which will even give them the opportunity to reject them), as well as the right to refuse to make transfers through areas that they consider dangerous or very distant.
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