{"id":996840,"date":"2026-03-07T09:07:13","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T03:37:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=996840"},"modified":"2026-03-07T09:51:19","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T04:21:19","slug":"pay-to-work-model-in-gig-economy-flagged","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/03\/07\/pay-to-work-model-in-gig-economy-flagged\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Pay-to-work\u2019 model in gig economy flagged"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A report by the International Alliance of App-Based Transport Workers (IAATW) has warned that app-based transport and delivery workers could increasingly be pushed into a \u201cpay-to-work\u201d system in which drivers pay platform companies to access work. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, some companies are testing a subscription-based model in which drivers pay a fee to use the platform and receive ride or delivery bookings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>HYDERABAD: A report by the International Alliance of App-Based Transport Workers (IAATW) has warned that app-based transport and delivery workers could increasingly be pushed into a \u201cpay-to-work\u201d system in which drivers pay platform companies to access work. According to the report, some companies are testing a subscription-based model in which drivers pay a fee to use the platform and receive ride or delivery bookings.<\/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-996840","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\/996840","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=996840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/996840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=996840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=996840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=996840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}