New Delhi, Jan 13 (IANS) Labour Minister Mansukh Mandaviya on Tuesday asked major food delivery and quick-commerce platforms to do away with rigid ’10-minute’ delivery time commitments, stressing that the safety of delivery partners must come before speed.Mandaviya held discussions with officials of Blinkit, Zepto, Swiggy and Zomato here, during which, he advised them to remove strict delivery deadlines from their platforms and promotional material in the interest of delivery workers’ safety.F…
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New Delhi, Jan 7 (IANS) Eternal, the parent company of Zomato and Blinkit, has received a goods and services tax demand order amounting to nearly Rs 3.7 crore, including interest and penalty, for the period between April 2019 and March 2020.The order was issued by the Additional Commissioner of State Tax (Appeals), West Bengal, and relates to the alleged short payment of output GST.Eternal disclosed the development in a regulatory filing late on Tuesday evening.According to the filing, the compa…
New Delhi, Jan 4 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha has welcomed the Central government’s draft Social Security Rules, notified on December 30, 2025, under the Code on Social Security, 2020, describing them as a “crucial first step” towards recognition, protection, and dignity for millions of gig workers and delivery partners.In a social media post, Chadha congratulated the workers: “Congratulations to all Gig Workers and Delivery Partners. There is good news for you. …
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) A fresh debate on Saturday erupted over working conditions in India’s fast-growing quick commerce sector after a Telangana-based gig workers’ union sharply criticised Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal’s defence of the company’s delivery model, calling the current conditions “not decent work”.The pushback came after Goyal posted a detailed statement on X explaining how delivery partners earn on Zomato and Blinkit.He said that in 2025, delivery partners earned an avera…
New Delhi, Jan 3 (IANS) Amid the growing debate over gig workers, former NITI Aayog CEO Amitabh Kant has said that politicising the gig economy will kill quick commerce, destroy jobs and push workers back into the informal sector.In a post on X, former G20 Sherpa Kant said that Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha and his party are “not job creators but job killers”.“Gig jobs are set to grow from 7.7 million to 23.5 million by 2030 — among India’s largest job-creation engines…
New Delhi, Jan 2 (IANS) Gig workers must be treated as human beings, and not just disposable data points, said Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Friday.Chadha had extended strong support to gig workers across the country who observed a nationwide symbolic strike on New Year’s Eve, demanding fair wages, better working conditions and social security from major delivery and e-commerce platforms.“I sat down with delivery riders of Zomato, Swiggy, Blinkit etc. This is not a ra…
New Delhi, Jan 1 (IANS) Food delivery and quick commerce platforms Zomato and Blinkit achieved record delivery numbers on New Year’s Eve, despite calls for strikes circulating over the past few days, its co-founder and CEO Deepinder Goyal said on Thursday.Goyal said that both platforms continued operations smoothly with the support of local authorities.In a post on social media platform X, Goyal said that support from local law enforcement helped control a small number of miscreants, allowing …
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha MP Raghav Chadha on Wednesday extended strong support to gig workers across the country who observed a nationwide symbolic strike, demanding fair wages, better working conditions and social security from major delivery and e-commerce platforms. Chadha spent New Year’s Eve interacting with protesting gig workers at Old Rajinder Nagar in Delhi, where delivery partners associated with various companies had gathered to make their voices he…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) Rajya Sabha member Raghav Chadha on Wednesday extended support to the nationwide strike by gig workers associated with leading delivery and e-commerce platforms, asserting that their voices and demands deserve to be heard as they are “humans, not robots or bonded labour”.Thousands of gig workers linked to major delivery and e-commerce platforms observed a nationwide strike on Wednesday, impacting services across several states.Delivery partners work…
New Delhi, Dec 31 (IANS) New Year’s Eve celebrations across India are likely to face major disruptions as thousands of gig workers associated with leading delivery and e-commerce platforms prepare for a nationwide strike on Wednesday. Delivery partners working with companies such as Zomato, Swiggy, Blinkit, Zepto, Amazon and Flipkart have announced plans to log off their apps or significantly reduce work, raising concerns over delays, cancellations and service breakdowns on one of the busiest …