Draft Steps to Better Protect Gig Workers
- China’s labor ministry released draft nationwide rules to protect gig workers, including minimum pay, holiday pay, and rest.
- The proposed rules would require platforms that manage workers to sign standardized employment agreements with them.
- The measures could affect millions of delivery drivers, couriers, and ride-hailing drivers who often lack formal contracts.
- The rules would require platforms to explain algorithmic decisions and prohibit account bans or order stoppages based solely on algorithms.
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The second world economy had 280 million so-called flexible workers in 2025, according to a report by the Research Centre on New Forms of Employment in China, a think tank, which usually has few protections and often provides long hours for a remuneration deemed modest in terms of the time invested. A text released on Thursday by the Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security requires Internet platforms that "recruit, organize and supervise…
China Unveils First Nationwide Labor Rules to Protect Gig Economy Workers
China Unveils First Nationwide Labor Rules to Protect Gig Economy Workers - The sweeping draft regulations aim to secure minimum pay, guarantee rest periods, and curb arbitrary fines for millions of delivery riders and ride-hailing drivers who currently fall outside traditional employment laws
Il Quotidiano del Sud
The South China Newspaper, protection measures for workers in the new occupations of PECHINO (CHINA) (XINHUA/ITALPRESS) Yesterday the Chinese Ministry of Human Resources and Social Security published a draft of measures aimed at protecting the rights and interests of workers employed in new forms of employment, inviting the public to submit observations by November 8th. If adopted, these measures would include in the protection of the system [..…
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