{"id":1018677,"date":"2026-07-03T09:06:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-03T03:36:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1018677"},"modified":"2026-07-03T09:49:28","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T04:19:28","slug":"from-partners-to-right-ful-staff-kerala-gig-workers-call-for-status-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/03\/from-partners-to-right-ful-staff-kerala-gig-workers-call-for-status-update\/","title":{"rendered":"From \u2018partners\u2019 to \u2018right \u2019ful staff: Kerala Gig workers call for status update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: For 39-year-old Sharon (name changed), a Swiggy-Zomato delivery executive from Ernakulam, a delayed restaurant order, a traffic jam or an accident can mean lost earnings, penalties or paying out of pocket. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe receive incentives only if we complete deliveries within a specific time. However, many restaurants delay orders. We cannot cancel, and end up losing the incentive,\u201d said Sharon. \u201cIf we get stuck in traffic beyond the delivery time, alarms keep saying \u2018You are delayed.\u2019 The company knows it is raining and even introduces rain surge pricing. Yet the system keeps penalising us,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>KOCHI: For 39-year-old Sharon (name changed), a Swiggy-Zomato delivery executive from Ernakulam, a delayed restaurant order, a traffic jam or an accident can mean lost earnings, penalties or paying out of pocket. \u201cWe receive incentives only if we complete deliveries within a specific time. However, many restaurants delay orders. We cannot cancel, and end up losing the incentive,\u201d said Sharon. \u201cIf we get stuck in traffic beyond the delivery time, alarms keep saying \u2018You are delayed.\u2019 The company knows it is raining and even introduces rain surge pricing. Yet the system keeps penalising us,\u201d he said.<\/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-1018677","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\/1018677","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=1018677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1018689,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1018677\/revisions\/1018689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1018677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1018677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1018677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}