Income disparity, tough work conditions plague gig work

Even as the debate around gig workers’ earnings refuses to die down, HR and staffing solution companies point to wide disparities in monthly average incomes and tough work conditions leading to high attrition rate. While Eternal founder Deepinder Goyal has claimed that a delivery partner can earn over Rs 25,000 a month on average, workers’ unions contest this, saying that on a normal day gig workers earn just Rs 6–Rs11 per delivery. They also note that many food delivery platforms initially paid as much as Rs 50 per delivery.