Apps offer minimum wage, but reject bond – 06/20/2023 – Panel SA

Amobitec, an association that represents companies such as Amazon, iFood, Flixbus, Uber, Zé Delivery, Buser, 99 and Lalamove, agrees to negotiate with the government a minimum remuneration for app couriers.

This is what reveals the document obtained by Panel SA with the list of proposals from the trade union centrals to be presented this Tuesday (20) to the work group that discusses, in the Lula government, a legal framework to regulate the activity by apps.

Companies want to establish that work intermediated by digital platforms constitutes a “new phenomenon”, with specific characteristics and challenges. They do not accept, however, defining something in the new regulation that establishes an employment relationship between apps and couriers.

Issues such as worker independence, social security, limitation of working hours and safety of couriers are claims that platforms are willing to embrace.

At the beginning of this month, when the working group began, the union centrals released a document with 12 guidelines asking for a monthly floor, the creation of a work bond following the current legislation —in which regular workers will have an indefinite bond and casual workers will be defined as autonomous.

There is no consensus between the platforms, but two points are non-negotiable for them: legal security and worker independence.

In the first item, Amobitec states that legislation adapted to the reality of work intermediated by platforms is necessary and that removes “alleged controversies around the existence of an employment relationship”.

“It is necessary to innovate and face the real challenges of the new model, aiming to reduce disputes and effectively guarantee workers’ rights”, says Amobitec in the document.

Regarding worker independence, the platforms want to establish that there is freedom of access, including for those who want to use the application as an additional source of income.

In addition, they propose freedom to define working hours, days and periods, and want to end the exclusivity relationship between platforms and registered workers.

Another proposal establishes the guarantee of a minimum remuneration, ensuring that couriers will receive the equivalent of the minimum wage proportional to the time of work registered on the platform.

Amobitec is also willing to accept the creation of insurance against accidents, complementing the protection offered by the social security system —an agenda that is a labor claim.

The working group was inaugurated by the Lula government at the beginning of this month and should establish a regulation proposal that will be sent to Congress. It brings together large companies and class associations, as well as union centrals and autonomous movement delivery men, who were not initially included by the Ministry of Labor, but were invited by the unions.

With Diego Felix

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