Panel SA: Debate on worker per app in the Lula government should include theme that concerns restaurants

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The discussion about changes in the regulation of the activities of workers through apps in the Lula government must go through the issue of OL (logistics operators), which are companies that supply labor for delivery services.

The subject heated up in the sector last week, after the news of the bankruptcy of one of these OLs, a third-party company that intermediated motorcyclists for iFood.

The end of the model usually appears among the demands of motorcyclists who say they prefer to earn per kilometer traveled instead of a fixed salary.

Entrepreneurs in the restaurant sector also complain, saying they are afraid that new bankruptcies will compromise food deliveries because establishments do not clearly know which part of the market depends on this type of outsourcing.

A part of the couriers is connected to the app via a third party, while another portion acts on its own with a separate registration in the app.

iFood claims that 25% of the more than 200,000 couriers with an active profile in Brazil work for an OL.

Rappi says that it does not work with OL and that all its app’s couriers are connected directly, without intermediaries. Competitor of iFood, Rappi criticizes the model.

According to Abrasel (association that represents bars and restaurants), the bankruptcy of the outsourced iFood company concerned the sector, because more than 80% of orders from establishments are made in the company’s application.

The OL that declared bankruptcy last week leaving motorcyclists without pay was SIS Express. The company is responsible for 1% of the iFood operation in the country, according to the app. To avoid delivery problems, iFood says it took over the payment of late wages and removed motorcyclists from the OL condition to single delivery, the so-called “cloud”.

Joana Cunha with Paulo Ricardo Martins and Diego Felix

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