Chinanews Client Beijing, August 19th (Reporter Li Jinlei) With the rapid development of the platform economy, the number of new forms of employment such as online-hailing distributors and online car-hailing drivers has increased significantly.

At present, the number of flexible employees in China exceeds 200 million.

　　However, these people are "trapped in the system, tied to the algorithm, tied to the rake, and outside of social security", and their legitimate rights and interests have been infringed.

Today, the state has taken action and issued the "Guiding Opinions on Safeguarding the Labor Security Rights and Interests of Workers in New Employment Forms", safeguarding the rights of 200 million people.

Data map: The takeaway boy delivers meals in the snow.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Dong

What should I do if I encounter an accident with insufficient protection?

——Plan to launch a pilot program for occupational injury protection

　　At present, the scale of takeaway food delivery staff has expanded to 7.7 million. However, in recent years, groups such as takeaway brothers have encountered accidents and insufficient protection. For example, this year a rider died suddenly and the platform only paid 2,000 yuan at the beginning, which is distressing. .

　　The reason is that the employment methods of some takeaway brothers are relatively flexible and have not established labor relations with enterprises, so they cannot be directly included in the current work-related injury insurance system to protect their rights.

Although most platform companies purchase commercial insurance such as accidental injury insurance, the level of protection is too low.

　　what to do?

Vice Minister of Human Resources and Social Security You Jun pointed out at the State Council’s regular policy briefing on the 18th that the occupational injury protection measures for platform flexible employees are being formulated and that

occupational injury protection pilots are planned to resolve the imbalance and inadequate occupational injury protection as soon as possible. problem.

　　According to reports, it is planned to start with industries such as travel, takeaway, instant delivery, and intra-city freight, which are highly concerned by all sectors of society and have a greater risk of occupational injury, and select some provinces and cities with better working foundations to pilot the program, and wait until the system is mature. In the future, it will be rolled out in an orderly manner to effectively protect the rights and interests of flexible employment personnel on the platform.

Data map: Takeaway boy passes through the section of stagnant water.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Liu Ranyang

What if the takeaway rider is kidnapped by the algorithm?

——Appropriately relax the delivery time limit

　　"Delivering food is to race against death, to compete with the traffic police, and to be friends with the red light." The article "Takeaway riders, trapped in the system" reveals the dilemma faced by takeaway riders: As the prescribed delivery time is getting shorter and shorter, takeaway riders are coming in more and more. The more difficult it is, the more you have to speed, run red lights, or go backwards, and the number of traffic accidents has risen sharply.

　　Pang Jin, director of the Internet Transaction Supervision and Administration Department of the State Administration of Market Supervision, pointed out at a regular policy briefing of the State Council on the 18th that a reasonable performance evaluation system for food delivery staff should be set up.

The platform should reasonably determine the evaluation factors such as the number of orders and online rate,

appropriately relax the delivery time limit, and must not infringe the legitimate rights and interests of workers through algorithms or other means.

　　In addition, the platform dispatch mechanism should be optimized.

Give full play to the technical advantages of the platform, optimize the round-trip route of take-out food delivery staff, reduce labor intensity, scientifically determine order saturation, reasonably determine working hours, and effectively ensure labor safety.

Data map: People use online car-hailing services.

Photo by China News Agency reporter Wu Junjie

What should I do if the platform percentage is too high?

——Set the upper limit of the rake rate

　　At present, there are 236 online car-hailing platform companies nationwide, and more than 3.51 million online car-hailing drivers have been licensed.

However, individual online car-hailing platforms, after gaining a dominant position in the market, arbitrarily adjust their business strategies such as pricing rules and set excessively high percentages to induce drivers to work overtime and drive fatigued, which infringes on the driver’s labor rights and interests such as labor compensation and rest. .

　　In this regard, Li Huaqiang, head of the Department of Transportation Services of the Ministry of Transport, pointed out that to standardize the operating behavior of platform companies, online car-hailing platform companies are required to standardize their independent pricing behavior,

reduce excessively high percentages, and strengthen communication and negotiation with drivers. , Set the upper limit of the percentage ratio and announce it to the society.

　　In addition, to protect the drivers’ reasonable rest rights, online car-hailing platform companies are required to continuously optimize the dispatch mechanism, maximize the operational efficiency of the vehicle during the online period, scientifically determine the driver’s working hours and labor intensity, and avoid overtime work and fatigue driving. .

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