The association that brings together the largest mobility applications in operation in Brazil will send candidates in this year’s elections a document with their main demands in the coming days.
At the center of them, the regulation of the work of drivers and delivery men and the opening of the road transport and charter market.
The letter of commitment from Amobitec (Brazilian Association of Mobility and Technology) will be sent to candidates for the Presidency of the Republic, to state governments and to those seeking a vacancy in the federal and state legislative houses.
The main companies in their segments are under the Amobitec umbrella. Uber and 99, for individual transport, iFood, for meal deliveries, and Buser and Flixbus, for bus trips. Amazon, Zé Delivery and Lalamove also make up the group.
“The letter represents a lot of our conversations with our stakeholders”, says André Porto, executive director of the association. “These are companies focused on dealing with the mobility issue and we believe that technology comes to really facilitate relationships.”
The letter is divided into seven points that address, in addition to the opening of the travel market and the situation of app workers, what Porto called “putting people at the center of public policies, because only then will we find the best solutions .”
Here’s what the seven points say:
1) Expand the social protection of workers on platforms
The companies defend, in the letter, that “the expansion of social protection should not happen based on old rules”, that is, the formal registration in the portfolio.
If that happens, they say that the job offer will decrease and that this “would affect what urban individual transport drivers and delivery people value most in the apps: the flexibility and autonomy to work as much and when they want, on the platforms they choose.”
In April, Amobitec had already released another letter, in which it defends a rule for the work of delivery people and individual transport drivers that, on the one hand, allows social security inclusion, and, on the other, does not create a job relationship.
“Amobitec does not want to impose any kind of agenda. The future of work is a discussion that the whole world has and we understand that the traditional bond does not meet”, says Porto. For apps, discussions need to consider the different situations of working through these platforms and put worker autonomy at the center of them.
Such as Sheet showed in August, the regulation of the work of drivers and delivery men entered the agenda of presidential election campaigns. Representatives of the candidates Lula (PT) and Ciro Gomes (PDT) have already had conversations with associations linked to the applications and with workers’ representatives. The Ministry of Labor and Employment is also working on a proposal.
2) Commit to opening up the mobility market
The new dispute front for companies organized under Amobitec is the road travel market, considered closed and concentrated in the hands of a few companies. In the letter, the association demands from candidates a commitment to “users’ freedom of choice”.
“The new companies, from the use of technology, have the possibility of opening this market with gains to the consumer, more accessible prices, quality, supply and as much or more security than what is offered today”, says Porto.
Amobitec defends that the focus of the regulations is the quality of the service and the safety of the user, “ending with market barriers artificially created to protect
a very restricted economic group.”
The executive director of Amobitec says that there is a need to accelerate the pace of discussions on the rules for the sector, which is seen in the midst of regulatory back and forth and judicialization. The applications defend a regulatory framework that allows increasing the number of competitors.
Another point of the letter deals with collaborative charter, affected by what the sector calls closed-circuit, when there is an obligation for the round trip routes to cover the same passengers, vehicle and route. “We understand that this has to end and that the change would benefit the tourism sector”, says Porto.
3) Prioritize people in mobility planning:
The entity advocates that urban spaces be designed for people and the public interest, reducing idle spaces. This should appear, for example, according to the association, in the increase in the capillarity of points of embarkation and disembarkation of the transport network, both public and private.
Still on this topic, companies ask candidates to prioritize clean and multimodal mobility plans, which reduce dependence on their own car and “excessive demand for private and idle spaces on the roads.”
4) Ensuring innovation in the mobility sector
Governments and the Legislature should promote an environment that encourages the diversity of mobility services, say the companies. For this, they say, public policies must embrace and promote the use of technologies, so that “innovation is not arbitrarily curbed or criminalized, but made compatible with current regulations.”
5) Work in partnership with the private sector and NGOs
For Amobitec, the different transport services must be understood as complementary and it is up to the government to stimulate public policies for the integration of this system.
The letter also asks that the concept of mobility as a service (MaaS) be prioritized, according to which citizens are starting to move away from their own means of transport. According to Amobitec, this understanding should be seen “as the solution for more multimodal and efficient displacements, reducing the centrality of the own car in the urban and road environment.”
6) Promote the improvement of public and private transport systems
Mobility applications advocate that governments expand the use of technologies to improve the management of the urban public transport system and see the possibility of private transport being treated as complementary in policies for the sector.
“The use of technology contributes to greater security for users and reduces transaction costs for regulatory agencies of intercity and interstate transport in terms of monitoring regular and occasional road trips.”
7) Commit to open public transport data
In the letter that will follow to the candidates, the association also defends the opening of public transport data, “according to internationally defined standards” and “respecting the guidelines of the LGPD”.
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