{"id":982922,"date":"2026-01-01T08:02:23","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:32:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982922"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:21:31","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:51:31","slug":"zomato-swiggy-offer-increased-payout-to-gig-workers-amid-strike-call-by-unions-on-new-years-eve","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/01\/zomato-swiggy-offer-increased-payout-to-gig-workers-amid-strike-call-by-unions-on-new-years-eve\/","title":{"rendered":"Zomato, Swiggy offer increased payout to gig workers amid strike call by unions on New Year&#8217;s Eve"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy are rolling out additional incentives for their delivery partners, a routine measure during festive periods, to ensure uninterrupted services on New Year\u2019s Eve amid a strike call by gig workers\u2019 unions. <\/p>\n<p>Telangana Gig and Platform Workers&#8217; Union (TGPWU) and Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) have claimed that lakhs of workers are set to join the nationwide strike to demand better payouts and improved working conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food delivery platforms Zomato and Swiggy are rolling out additional incentives for their delivery partners, a routine measure during festive periods, to ensure uninterrupted services on New Year\u2019s Eve amid a strike call by gig workers\u2019 unions. Telangana Gig and Platform Workers&#8217; Union (TGPWU) and Indian Federation of App-Based Transport Workers (IFAT) have claimed that lakhs of workers are set to join the nationwide strike to demand better payouts and improved working conditions.<\/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-982922","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\/982922","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=982922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}