South China Morning Post

China proposes ‘basic safeguards’ to cover expanding gig workforce but gaps remain

China has issued a draft of its first formal regulation to extend labour-law protections to the country’s rapidly growing ranks of gig and platform workers, a major segment of an expanding flexible workforce within the country’s tough job market. Platform workers, such as ride-hailing drivers and those engaged in food deliveries – a group totalling 84 million who often face irregular pay and intense workloads – will be entitled to basic labour protections covering pay, rest periods, workplace...

By South China Morning Post

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China proposes ‘basic safeguards’ to cover expanding gig workforce but gaps remain
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