The issue of workers’ rights as relates to digital platforms and in particular meal delivery riders has just exploded onto Giuseppe Conte’s new government’s political agenda. Upon taking office, and before the government actually secured the required parliamentary confidence vote, Labor Minister, Luigi Di Maio invited a Bologna –based Union Riders delegation to a meeting. The capital of Emilia-Romagna is spearheading moves to protect ‘riders’ by way of a charter that has just been signed by two Italian meal delivery companies.
Minister Di Maio reaches out… Luigi Di Maio’s invitation is highly symbolic. The Five Start Movement party leader, now heading up the heavyweight Ministry of Economic Development and Labor wants to ‘devote his efforts to food delivery digital platform workers and to other cycle-transportation activities’. So on 04 June the freshly appointed Minister received a delegation of ‘riders’ from both Rome and Bologna, the goal of which was to ‘open national round table negotiations between the governme
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