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2023년 5월 3일

저자:
Pedro Mendonça, Ian Clark & Nadia Kougiannou, The Conversation

UK: Undocumented migrants renting food delivery accounts as "substitutes" for gig platforms describe low wages, physical abuse, injuries & insecure work; incl. comments from Deliveroo & Uber Eats

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During 2021 and 2022, we got to know seven undocumented migrants who worked as food delivery riders by renting accounts from other riders. We also interviewed 25 documented account holders, of whom three rented their accounts to undocumented...

The undocumented couriers we spoke to typically said they struggled to make enough money to pay off their debts and support their families, despite often working seven days a week…

Some couriers also described receiving abuse from other riders on social media – for example, in response to their posts looking for accounts to rent. The documented couriers regard this activity as harming their prospects of securing decent pay and working hours...

The insecure and informal nature of this work results in hyper-precarious lives…

Deliveroo stressed that it operates a zero-tolerance policy towards riders who fail to meet their obligations when they appoint another person to complete orders. It added that it conducts regular sweeps of its riders to search for any indication of suspicious or illegal activity, and is rolling out new identity verification technology to further strengthen its system of ID checks…

Uber Eats stated that it takes immediate steps to deactivate an account if any breach is found to have taken place, and that it carries out regular identity verification on account holders to ensure that the owner retains control of their account…