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30 Nov 2021

Author:
The New Indian Express

India: Food delivery workers in Hyderabad stage protest against Swiggy, plan to boycott deliveries indefinitely if demands are not met

"Swiggy workers stage stir in Hyderabad, seek hike", 30 November 2021

Several workers of online food delivery platform Swiggy staged a black badge protest over their pay structure...threatening to go on an indefinite strike...if their demands are not met. 

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Their demands include an increase in minimum base pay to Rs 35, increase in batch order pay to Rs 20, re-introduction of customer doorstep delivery charge of Rs 5, increase in distance pay from the existing Rs 6 per km to Rs 12 per km and also a monthly rating incentive

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Repeated requests by delivery workers to Swiggy to increase the per km charges did not yield any positive result...

The president of Telangana Gig and Platform Workers Union, Shaik Salauddin said that a continuous rise in petrol and other essential commodities was impacting the earnings of delivery workers.