{"id":1008444,"date":"2026-05-18T09:19:12","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:49:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1008444"},"modified":"2026-05-18T09:24:47","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T03:54:47","slug":"fuel-hike-distresses-gig-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/18\/fuel-hike-distresses-gig-workers\/","title":{"rendered":"Fuel hike distresses gig workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The latest hike in fuel prices has intensified financial pressure on thousands of gig and platform workers in Hyderabad, with delivery riders, cab drivers and auto drivers saying their already shrinking earnings are being further hit by rising petrol, diesel, CNG and LPG costs. <\/p>\n<p>Workers alleged that despite the steady increase in fuel prices, aggregator companies have failed to proportionately revise fares or delivery payouts, forcing workers to bear the additional expenses themselves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: The latest hike in fuel prices has intensified financial pressure on thousands of gig and platform workers in Hyderabad, with delivery riders, cab drivers and auto drivers saying their already shrinking earnings are being further hit by rising petrol, diesel, CNG and LPG costs. Workers alleged that despite the steady increase in fuel prices, aggregator companies have failed to proportionately revise fares or delivery payouts, forcing workers to bear the additional expenses themselves.<\/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":[75,4,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1008444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-new-indian-express","category-newspapers","category-the-new-indian-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008444","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=1008444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1008465,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1008444\/revisions\/1008465"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1008444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1008444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1008444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}