{"id":988867,"date":"2026-01-30T09:58:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-30T04:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=988867"},"modified":"2026-01-30T12:16:38","modified_gmt":"2026-01-30T06:46:38","slug":"gig-workers-cry-foul-during-protest-against-urban-companys-instant-services-they-pushed-touched-us-inappropriately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/30\/gig-workers-cry-foul-during-protest-against-urban-companys-instant-services-they-pushed-touched-us-inappropriately\/","title":{"rendered":"Gig workers cry foul during protest against Urban Company\u2019s instant services \u2013 \u2018They pushed, touched us inappropriately\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gig workers led a major protest against Urban Company on Wednesday \u2014 calling for an end to \u2018instant\u2019 services with impossible timeframes. The company has sparked outrage in recent months after urging \u2018salon\u2019 workers to deliver their services in 15-minute slots. The protesters claimed they were threatened, pushed around and touched inappropriately as they sought to make their point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gig workers led a major protest against Urban Company on Wednesday \u2014 calling for an end to \u2018instant\u2019 services with impossible timeframes. The company has sparked outrage in recent months after urging \u2018salon\u2019 workers to deliver their services in 15-minute slots. The protesters claimed they were threatened, pushed around and touched inappropriately as they sought to make their point.<\/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-988867","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\/988867","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=988867"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/988867\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=988867"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=988867"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=988867"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}