{"id":1008419,"date":"2026-05-18T09:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008419"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:02:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:32:51","slug":"gig-workers-call-5-hour-nationwide-shutdown-of-app-based-services-demand-rs-20-per-km-after-fuel-price-hike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/gig-workers-call-5-hour-nationwide-shutdown-of-app-based-services-demand-rs-20-per-km-after-fuel-price-hike\/","title":{"rendered":"Gig workers call 5-hour nationwide shutdown of app-based services, demand Rs 20 per km after fuel price hike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel price hike: Gig and platform workers across India have announced a five-hour nationwide shutdown of app-based services to protest rising fuel costs and demand a minimum rate of Rs 20 per kilometre for delivery and transport work. The temporary halt, organised by the Gig &amp; Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU), is scheduled from 12 pm to 5 pm on Saturday (May 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fuel price hike: Gig and platform workers across India have announced a five-hour nationwide shutdown of app-based services to protest rising fuel costs and demand a minimum rate of Rs 20 per kilometre for delivery and transport work. The temporary halt, organised by the Gig &amp; Platform Service Workers Union (GIPSWU), is scheduled from 12 pm to 5 pm on Saturday (May 16).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008419","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008419","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1008419"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008419\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008447,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008419\/revisions\/1008447"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008419"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008419"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008419"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}