US gig worker murders expose apps’ safety gaps, says labour group
Los Angeles, USThomson Reuters Foundation Two years after fleeing political persecution in Bangladesh, Salauddin Bablu was stabbed to death in Manhattan by a man who stole the electric bike he used to deliver food during long shifts for the Grubhub app. “When Salauddin died, his family lost everything,” Bablu’s brother-in-law, Muhammad Ahsan, said by phone […]
“Like slaves”: Lebanon’s delivery riders struggle as crisis bites
MAYA GEBEILY and TIMOUR AZHARI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the challenges facing freelance delivery workers in the Middle Eastern nation…