{"id":982938,"date":"2026-01-01T08:16:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T02:46:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982938"},"modified":"2026-01-01T08:31:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T03:01:30","slug":"new-years-eve-gig-worker-protest-sees-limited-impact-as-zomato-swiggy-roll-out-higher-payouts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/01\/new-years-eve-gig-worker-protest-sees-limited-impact-as-zomato-swiggy-roll-out-higher-payouts\/","title":{"rendered":"New Year\u2019s Eve gig worker protest sees limited impact as Zomato, Swiggy roll out higher payouts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A section of gig workers on Wednesday stopped work demanding better pay and improved working conditions, but the agitation had little impact on services on e-commerce and online food delivery platforms, which reported robust business on New Year\u2019s Eve. <\/p>\n<p>While gig workers staged demonstrations at some places, companies such as Zomato and Swiggy rolled out additional incentives for delivery partners, a standard practice during festive periods, to ensure minimal disruption to services on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A section of gig workers on Wednesday stopped work demanding better pay and improved working conditions, but the agitation had little impact on services on e-commerce and online food delivery platforms, which reported robust business on New Year\u2019s Eve. While gig workers staged demonstrations at some places, companies such as Zomato and Swiggy rolled out additional incentives for delivery partners, a standard practice during festive periods, to ensure minimal disruption to services on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/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":[83,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982938","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982938","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=982938"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982938\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982938"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982938"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982938"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}