Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 73
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 73,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'catslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 73,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'catslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 73
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Code Context


        trigger_error($message, E_USER_DEPRECATED);

    }
$message = 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 74
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php.'
$stackFrame = (int) 1
$trace = [
	(int) 0 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ServerRequest.php',
		'line' => (int) 2421,
		'function' => 'deprecationWarning',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead.'
		]
	],
	(int) 1 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
		'line' => (int) 74,
		'function' => 'offsetGet',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
		]
	],
	(int) 2 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Controller/Controller.php',
		'line' => (int) 610,
		'function' => 'printArticle',
		'class' => 'App\Controller\ArtileDetailController',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 3 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 120,
		'function' => 'invokeAction',
		'class' => 'Cake\Controller\Controller',
		'object' => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	],
	(int) 4 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php',
		'line' => (int) 94,
		'function' => '_invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(App\Controller\ArtileDetailController) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 5 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/BaseApplication.php',
		'line' => (int) 235,
		'function' => 'dispatch',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 6 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\BaseApplication',
		'object' => object(App\Application) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 7 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 162,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 8 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 9 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 88,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 10 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 11 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php',
		'line' => (int) 96,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 12 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 65,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware',
		'object' => object(Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 13 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Runner.php',
		'line' => (int) 51,
		'function' => '__invoke',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 14 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Http/Server.php',
		'line' => (int) 98,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Runner',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Runner) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => [
			(int) 0 => object(Cake\Http\MiddlewareQueue) {},
			(int) 1 => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {},
			(int) 2 => object(Cake\Http\Response) {}
		]
	],
	(int) 15 => [
		'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/webroot/index.php',
		'line' => (int) 39,
		'function' => 'run',
		'class' => 'Cake\Http\Server',
		'object' => object(Cake\Http\Server) {},
		'type' => '->',
		'args' => []
	]
]
$frame = [
	'file' => '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php',
	'line' => (int) 74,
	'function' => 'offsetGet',
	'class' => 'Cake\Http\ServerRequest',
	'object' => object(Cake\Http\ServerRequest) {
		trustProxy => false
		[protected] params => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] data => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] query => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] cookies => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _environment => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] url => 'latest-news-updates/post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya/print'
		[protected] base => ''
		[protected] webroot => '/'
		[protected] here => '/latest-news-updates/post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya/print'
		[protected] trustedProxies => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] _input => null
		[protected] _detectors => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] _detectorCache => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] stream => object(Zend\Diactoros\PhpInputStream) {}
		[protected] uri => object(Zend\Diactoros\Uri) {}
		[protected] session => object(Cake\Http\Session) {}
		[protected] attributes => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] emulatedAttributes => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
		[protected] uploadedFiles => [[maximum depth reached]]
		[protected] protocol => null
		[protected] requestTarget => null
		[private] deprecatedProperties => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	},
	'type' => '->',
	'args' => [
		(int) 0 => 'artileslug'
	]
]
deprecationWarning - CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311
Cake\Http\ServerRequest::offsetGet() - CORE/src/Http/ServerRequest.php, line 2421
App\Controller\ArtileDetailController::printArticle() - APP/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line 74
Cake\Controller\Controller::invokeAction() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 610
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 120
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51
Cake\Http\Server::run() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 98

Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Code Context
            if (Configure::read('debug')) {

                trigger_error($message, E_USER_WARNING);

            } else {
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot; title=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 61019
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot; title=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya  | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya </strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-Newsclick.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.</p><p style="text-align:justify">RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &ldquo;partners&rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk" title="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk">click here</a> to read more.</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$maxBufferLength = (int) 8192
$file = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php'
$line = (int) 853
$message = 'Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853'
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Code Context
            $response->getStatusCode(),

            ($reasonPhrase ? ' ' . $reasonPhrase : '')

        ));
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot; title=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 61019
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot; title=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya  | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya </strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-Newsclick.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.</p><p style="text-align:justify">RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &ldquo;partners&rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk" title="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk">click here</a> to read more.</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$reasonPhrase = 'OK'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitStatusLine() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 54
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
Code Context
                    $value

                ), $first);

                $first = false;
$response = object(Cake\Http\Response) {

	'status' => (int) 200,
	'contentType' => 'text/html',
	'headers' => [
		'Content-Type' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		]
	],
	'file' => null,
	'fileRange' => [],
	'cookies' => object(Cake\Http\Cookie\CookieCollection) {},
	'cacheDirectives' => [],
	'body' => '<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN"
        "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
    <link rel="canonical" href="https://im4change.in/<pre class="cake-error"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none');"><b>Notice</b> (8)</a>: Undefined variable: urlPrefix [<b>APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp</b>, line <b>8</b>]<div id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-trace" class="cake-stack-trace" style="display: none;"><a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Code</a> <a href="javascript:void(0);" onclick="document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context').style.display = (document.getElementById('cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context').style.display == 'none' ? '' : 'none')">Context</a><pre id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-code" class="cake-code-dump" style="display: none;"><code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB"></span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">head</span><span style="color: #007700">&gt;
</span></span></code>
<span class="code-highlight"><code><span style="color: #000000">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;link&nbsp;rel="canonical"&nbsp;href="<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">Configure</span><span style="color: #007700">::</span><span style="color: #0000BB">read</span><span style="color: #007700">(</span><span style="color: #DD0000">'SITE_URL'</span><span style="color: #007700">);&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$urlPrefix</span><span style="color: #007700">;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">category</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">slug</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>/<span style="color: #0000BB">&lt;?php&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">echo&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">$article_current</span><span style="color: #007700">-&gt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">seo_url</span><span style="color: #007700">;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">?&gt;</span>.html"/&gt;
</span></code></span>
<code><span style="color: #000000"><span style="color: #0000BB">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #007700">&lt;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">meta&nbsp;http</span><span style="color: #007700">-</span><span style="color: #0000BB">equiv</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"Content-Type"&nbsp;</span><span style="color: #0000BB">content</span><span style="color: #007700">=</span><span style="color: #DD0000">"text/html;&nbsp;charset=utf-8"</span><span style="color: #007700">/&gt;
</span></span></code></pre><pre id="cakeErr67ee4de7e386d-context" class="cake-context" style="display: none;">$viewFile = &#039;/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp&#039;
$dataForView = [
	&#039;article_current&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
		&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
		&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
		&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&#039;,
		&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
		&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
		&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya&#039;,
		&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
		&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
		&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
		&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
		&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [[maximum depth reached]],
		&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;
	
	},
	&#039;articleid&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
	&#039;metaTitle&#039; =&gt; &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
	&#039;metaKeywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax&#039;,
	&#039;metaDesc&#039; =&gt; &#039;-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition...&#039;,
	&#039;disp&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot; title=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;English&#039;,
	&#039;SITE_URL&#039; =&gt; &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;,
	&#039;site_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;im4change&#039;,
	&#039;adminprix&#039; =&gt; &#039;admin&#039;
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	&#039;id&#039; =&gt; (int) 61019,
	&#039;title&#039; =&gt; &#039;Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;,
	&#039;subheading&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;

&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;
&#039;,
	&#039;credit_writer&#039; =&gt; &#039;Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&#039;,
	&#039;article_img&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;article_img_thumb&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;status&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;show_on_home&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;lang&#039; =&gt; &#039;EN&#039;,
	&#039;category_id&#039; =&gt; (int) 16,
	&#039;tag_keyword&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;seo_url&#039; =&gt; &#039;post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya&#039;,
	&#039;meta_title&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_keywords&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;meta_description&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;noindex&#039; =&gt; (int) 1,
	&#039;publish_date&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	&#039;most_visit_section_id&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;article_big_img&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;liveid&#039; =&gt; null,
	&#039;created&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;modified&#039; =&gt; object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	&#039;edate&#039; =&gt; &#039;&#039;,
	&#039;tags&#039; =&gt; [
		(int) 0 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 =&gt; object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	&#039;category&#039; =&gt; object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	&#039;[new]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[accessible]&#039; =&gt; [
		&#039;*&#039; =&gt; true,
		&#039;id&#039; =&gt; false
	],
	&#039;[dirty]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[original]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[virtual]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[hasErrors]&#039; =&gt; false,
	&#039;[errors]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[invalid]&#039; =&gt; [],
	&#039;[repository]&#039; =&gt; &#039;Articles&#039;

}
$articleid = (int) 61019
$metaTitle = &#039;LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya &#039;
$metaKeywords = &#039;Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax&#039;
$metaDesc = &#039;-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition...&#039;
$disp = &#039;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;-Newsclick.in&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;&lt;em&gt;Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?&lt;/em&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&amp;rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &amp;ldquo;partners&amp;rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p style=&quot;text-align:justify&quot;&gt;Please &lt;a href=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot; title=&quot;https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk&quot;&gt;click here&lt;/a&gt; to read more.&lt;/p&gt;&#039;
$lang = &#039;English&#039;
$SITE_URL = &#039;https://im4change.in/&#039;
$site_title = &#039;im4change&#039;
$adminprix = &#039;admin&#039;</pre><pre class="stack-trace">include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51</pre></div></pre>latest-news-updates/post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya.html"/>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>
    <link href="https://im4change.in/css/control.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"
          media="all"/>
    <title>LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya  | Im4change.org</title>
    <meta name="description" content="-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition..."/>
    <script src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-1.10.2.js"></script>
    <script type="text/javascript" src="https://im4change.in/js/jquery-migrate.min.js"></script>
    <script language="javascript" type="text/javascript">

        $(document).ready(function () {
            var img = $("img")[0]; // Get my img elem
            var pic_real_width, pic_real_height;
            $("<img/>") // Make in memory copy of image to avoid css issues
                .attr("src", $(img).attr("src"))
                .load(function () {
                    pic_real_width = this.width;   // Note: $(this).width() will not
                    pic_real_height = this.height; // work for in memory images.
                });
        });
    </script>
    <style type="text/css">
        @media screen {
            div.divFooter {
                display: block;
            }
        }

        @media print {
            .printbutton {
                display: none !important;
            }
        }
    </style>
</head>
<body>
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="98%" align="center">
    <tr>
        <td class="top_bg">
            <div class="divFooter">
                <img src="https://im4change.in/images/logo1.jpg" height="59" border="0"
                     alt="Resource centre on India's rural distress" style="padding-top:14px;"/>
            </div>

        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td id="topspace">&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr id="topspace">
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-bottom:1px solid #000; padding-top:10px;" class="printbutton">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td width="100%">
            <h1 class="news_headlines" style="font-style:normal">
                <strong>Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya </strong></h1>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td width="100%" style="font-family:Arial, 'Segoe Script', 'Segoe UI', sans-serif, serif"><font size="3">
                <p style="text-align:justify">-Newsclick.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.</p><p style="text-align:justify">RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &ldquo;partners&rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk" title="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk">click here</a> to read more.</p>               </font>
        </td>
    </tr>
    <tr>
        <td>&nbsp;</td>
    </tr>

    <tr>
        <td height="50" style="border-top:1px solid #000; border-bottom:1px solid #000;padding-top:10px;">
            <form><input type="button" value=" Print this page "
                         onclick="window.print();return false;"/></form>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table></body>
</html>'

}
$cookies = []
$values = [
	(int) 0 => 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
]
$name = 'Content-Type'
$first = true
$value = 'text/html; charset=UTF-8'
header - [internal], line ??
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emitHeaders() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181
Cake\Http\ResponseEmitter::emit() - CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 55
Cake\Http\Server::emit() - CORE/src/Http/Server.php, line 141
[main] - ROOT/webroot/index.php, line 39

<head>

    <link rel="canonical" href="<?php echo Configure::read('SITE_URL'); ?><?php echo $urlPrefix;?><?php echo $article_current->category->slug; ?>/<?php echo $article_current->seo_url; ?>.html"/>

    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"/>

$viewFile = '/home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp'
$dataForView = [
	'article_current' => object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

		'id' => (int) 61019,
		'title' => 'Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya ',
		'subheading' => null,
		'description' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-Newsclick.in</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &ldquo;partners&rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk">click here</a> to read more.</p>
',
		'credit_writer' => 'Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk',
		'article_img' => '',
		'article_img_thumb' => '',
		'status' => (int) 1,
		'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
		'lang' => 'EN',
		'category_id' => (int) 16,
		'tag_keyword' => '',
		'seo_url' => 'post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya',
		'meta_title' => '',
		'meta_keywords' => '',
		'meta_description' => '',
		'noindex' => (int) 1,
		'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
		'most_visit_section_id' => null,
		'article_big_img' => null,
		'liveid' => null,
		'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
		'edate' => '',
		'tags' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
		'[new]' => false,
		'[accessible]' => [
			[maximum depth reached]
		],
		'[dirty]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[original]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[virtual]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[hasErrors]' => false,
		'[errors]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[invalid]' => [[maximum depth reached]],
		'[repository]' => 'Articles'
	
	},
	'articleid' => (int) 61019,
	'metaTitle' => 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya ',
	'metaKeywords' => 'Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax',
	'metaDesc' => '-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition...',
	'disp' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-Newsclick.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.</p><p style="text-align:justify">RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &ldquo;partners&rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk" title="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk">click here</a> to read more.</p>',
	'lang' => 'English',
	'SITE_URL' => 'https://im4change.in/',
	'site_title' => 'im4change',
	'adminprix' => 'admin'
]
$article_current = object(App\Model\Entity\Article) {

	'id' => (int) 61019,
	'title' => 'Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya ',
	'subheading' => null,
	'description' => '<p style="text-align:justify">-Newsclick.in</p>

<p style="text-align:justify"><em>Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?</em></p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &ldquo;partners&rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.</p>

<p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk">click here</a> to read more.</p>
',
	'credit_writer' => 'Newsclick.in, 15 October, 2021, https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk',
	'article_img' => '',
	'article_img_thumb' => '',
	'status' => (int) 1,
	'show_on_home' => (int) 1,
	'lang' => 'EN',
	'category_id' => (int) 16,
	'tag_keyword' => '',
	'seo_url' => 'post-pandemic-exploitation-of-food-delivery-workers-and-the-legal-reforms-needed-nilabhra-bhattacharya',
	'meta_title' => '',
	'meta_keywords' => '',
	'meta_description' => '',
	'noindex' => (int) 1,
	'publish_date' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenDate) {},
	'most_visit_section_id' => null,
	'article_big_img' => null,
	'liveid' => null,
	'created' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'modified' => object(Cake\I18n\FrozenTime) {},
	'edate' => '',
	'tags' => [
		(int) 0 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 1 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 2 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 3 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 4 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 5 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 6 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {},
		(int) 7 => object(Cake\ORM\Entity) {}
	],
	'category' => object(App\Model\Entity\Category) {},
	'[new]' => false,
	'[accessible]' => [
		'*' => true,
		'id' => false
	],
	'[dirty]' => [],
	'[original]' => [],
	'[virtual]' => [],
	'[hasErrors]' => false,
	'[errors]' => [],
	'[invalid]' => [],
	'[repository]' => 'Articles'

}
$articleid = (int) 61019
$metaTitle = 'LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya '
$metaKeywords = 'Gig workers,Platform workers,Gig work,Food delivery workers,Swiggy,Zomato,Rapido,Shadowfax'
$metaDesc = '-Newsclick.in

Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?

Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition...'
$disp = '<p style="text-align:justify">-Newsclick.in</p><p style="text-align:justify"><em>Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes?</em></p><p style="text-align:justify">Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers&rsquo; recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights.</p><p style="text-align:justify">RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve.</p><p style="text-align:justify">The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as &ldquo;partners&rdquo; so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits.</p><p style="text-align:justify">Please <a href="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk" title="https://www.newsclick.in/post-pandemic-exploitation-food-delivery-workers-and-legal-reforms-needed?fbclid=IwAR1FqrBIxsKcBMHVow_BD8QGV-bFaoe5Qglcx0zCaJaNHrruIJebL_hOMNk">click here</a> to read more.</p>'
$lang = 'English'
$SITE_URL = 'https://im4change.in/'
$site_title = 'im4change'
$adminprix = 'admin'

include - APP/Template/Layout/printlayout.ctp, line 8
Cake\View\View::_evaluate() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1413
Cake\View\View::_render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 1374
Cake\View\View::renderLayout() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 927
Cake\View\View::render() - CORE/src/View/View.php, line 885
Cake\Controller\Controller::render() - CORE/src/Controller/Controller.php, line 791
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::_invoke() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 126
Cake\Http\ActionDispatcher::dispatch() - CORE/src/Http/ActionDispatcher.php, line 94
Cake\Http\BaseApplication::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/BaseApplication.php, line 235
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\RoutingMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/RoutingMiddleware.php, line 162
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Routing\Middleware\AssetMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Routing/Middleware/AssetMiddleware.php, line 88
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Error\Middleware\ErrorHandlerMiddleware::__invoke() - CORE/src/Error/Middleware/ErrorHandlerMiddleware.php, line 96
Cake\Http\Runner::__invoke() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 65
Cake\Http\Runner::run() - CORE/src/Http/Runner.php, line 51

Post-pandemic Exploitation of Food Delivery Workers, and the Legal Reforms Needed -Nilabhra Bhattacharya

-Newsclick.in Why are gig workers not recognised by three of the four recently passed labour codes? Shedding light on the problems that food delivery app workers have been facing in the post-pandemic period in India, NILABHRA BHATTACHARYA advocates for gig workers’ recognition under all the labour codes that were passed by the Parliament in 2019 and 2020 to provide them minimum labour protections and rights. RECENTLY, the food delivery apps Swiggy and Zomato have come under severe criticism over social media over the plight of food delivery workers. It has been alleged that these workers are not only severely underpaid, but are also not getting the minimum job security that they rightfully deserve. The crisis that the COVID-19 pandemic unfolded has majorly impacted the informal workforce in India and gig workers, especially food delivery workers, have not been left unaffected. While the pandemic has no doubt adversely affected these companies, but on scrutiny, it has been revealed that some of the adverse actions against workers were planned before the pandemic, as claimed by former and current Swiggy and Zomato food delivery workers. Under the ambit of labour laws, employees of a company are to be provided with some basic protections like minimum wage pay and occupational safety, but Swiggy and Zomato have attempted to bypass this by choosing not to address their workers as employees but as “partners” so as to avoid providing them these labour benefits. Please click here to read more.