Event organizers said the protest was aimed at improving working conditions and wages for gig economy workers, who are now treated as independent contractors, not employees. This treatment limits ...

India's first women-led gig workers' union has called for a nationwide digital strike on Deepavali, marking a significant ...

At least five of the 10 women gig workers The Quint spoke with in India's metros admitted to being sexually harassed at least once.

A gig economy can be defined as a working system in which individual ... drivers such as online ojek and taxis 1,270 Joint Personnel Deployed to Secure Workers Protest in Jakarta Today A total of ...

Through strike, union is demanding recognition of gig workers as employees of platform companies, dignified working conditions & implementation of minimum wages, among others.

Some gig economy researchers have estimated that loophole ... played "games" with its requests for earnings data. Wednesday's protest - which Gig Workers Rising and We Drive Progress said will ...

Their ‘season of strikes’ began in Chennai last month when workers took to the streets to protest against low ... of the sufferings of India’s gig economy workers. You can read this week ...

By Jacob Bernstein The announcement was a victory for drivers who stopped eating to protest an earlier bailout ... companies in what is known as the gig economy.

Delivery drivers are trying to pressure Amazon to pay more to its Flex program drivers to accommodate surging gas prices. Around 50 delivery and rideshare drivers, including drivers for the Flex ...

Gig workers in India frequently protest against poor working conditions ... least some of the rights enjoyed by those in the formal economy. They also say it will provide a model for other states ...

Meanwhile, in Mumbai, cab aggregators, along with auto and taxi drivers, also took part in a protest ... gig workers in the country, was yet to formulate regulations to govern the local gig ...