UK: Migrant delivery riders for Deliveroo, Uber Eats & Just Eat allege "challenging, low-paid" working conditions, incl. 12-hour days, harassment & injuries; incl. cos. comments
“Life as a food delivery worker: ‘Sometimes men open the door naked’”
To earn a living as a delivery rider, some work 10-12 hour days, contending with low pay, exhaustion, accidents, injuries and harassment. Is this a new form of modern slavery?
“I earn more cleaning toilets than I do from being a Deliveroo rider,” says Marina, a Brazilian woman who juggles two jobs to support her 12- and 18-year-old daughters.
Marina, Adam and Mohammed are just a few of the hundreds of thousands of food delivery riders in the UK, mostly working for the big three players, Just Eat, Deliveroo and Uber Eats. Most are migrants…
The government has been clamping down on people working illegally …but those the Guardian interviewed … say they are working legally in challenging, low-paid conditions that many Britons would find unacceptable…
The delivery platforms reject this characterisation. “The overwhelming majority of riders tell us they are satisfied working with us,” a spokesperson for Deliveroo says…
“The safety and wellbeing of everyone who uses our platform is our top priority,” says Uber Eats…
“Our pay rates are competitive,” says Just Eat, “and data shows that couriers delivering for Just Eat earn, on average, significantly over the national living wage…