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Research on the Protection of Labor Rights and Interests of Delivery Riders in the Era of Algorithms

Zhirui WangShanghai Foreign Language School*

* Corresponding author: [email protected]

Abstract

Food delivery based on the internet has become a highly potential outcome after the flourishment of platform economy, and it does attract a lot of people to get involved in this career. The food delivery service has connected the customer, the company, and the workers together, providing the customers with convenient and comfortable methods to make an order and enjoy the foods from different restaurants without going out, thanks to the development of algorithms. However, as a new sort of technique that lack supervisory, algorithms are keep exploiting the delivery workers, on the other hand, and since the legal awareness of the workers are not strong enough together with their unfamiliarity with the new technology, they don’t have effective ways to protect their basic rights when their legal rights are violated by the entrepreneurs. This article mainly shows the reason behind this phenomenon and the current solutions together with the writer’s suggestions towards this issue.

Keywords: algorithms era; platform economy; labor rights
Published: November 20, 2023
DOI: 10.54254/2753-7064/12/20230128
Volume: CHR Vol.12
pp. 292-297
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