"The country's minister of labor and employment, Mansukh Mandaviya, met with executives from Zomato's BlinkIt, Swiggy's Instamart, and Zepto to ask them to drop their marketing language, which promises deliveries within 10 minutes, and discuss ways to improve safety and working conditions for delivery personnel, Bloomberg reported, citing anonymous sources. Following the meeting, BlinkIt has removed messaging that promised deliveries within 10 minutes, and its rivals are also expected to follow suit, Bloomberg said."
"The news comes little more than a month after India granted legal status to millions of gig and platform workers under new labor laws that define gig and platform workers in statute, and require aggregators, such as food-delivery and ride-hailing platforms, to contribute 1% to 2% of their annual revenue (capped at 5% of payments made to such workers) to a government-managed social security fund."
India's labor minister met with executives from BlinkIt, Instamart, and Zepto to request removal of 10-minute delivery marketing and to discuss measures for improving delivery personnel safety and working conditions. BlinkIt removed 10-minute messaging after the meeting, and rivals are expected to follow. Quick-commerce in India expanded rapidly through dark stores and extensive hiring of delivery staff to serve fast urban consumer demand, despite faltering elsewhere. New labor laws recently granted legal status to millions of gig and platform workers and require aggregators to contribute a portion of revenue to a government-managed social security fund.
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