The announcement of the departure of 99 Food from Brazil is yet another chapter in the search for balance in the food sector. delivery by application. Since January 2022, Uber Eats, James Delivery and Alfred Delivery have left the national market.
And the balance of the segment necessarily involves the regulation of work done through digital platformswhich is being discussed by a commission created by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva in January of this year.
Recently, the Minister of Labor, Luiz Marinho, who is leading the discussion on labor regulation, commented on the subject and stated that if application companies left the country because of the regulation, it is their problem.
For Maurício Corrêa da Veiga, a partner at Corrêa da Veiga Advogados, the minister’s comment is disastrous. “Application operators themselves are willing to grant certain benefits to ensure the minimum for these service providers,” he said.
According to the lawyer, we are facing the tip of an iceberg of a profound change in labor relations. “There is no way to regulate these relations with the old concepts of Labor Law”, says Veiga.
On the other side of the discussion, Ralf Alexandre Elisiário, one of the main leaders of app couriers in Brazil, says that a regulation that only guarantees social security is not enough for the category.
“President Lula was elected promising a regulation of applications, but everything indicates that what he wants […] is to offer social security to workers by application, such as retirement and accident insurance, which is not bad. The problem is that they just want that”, says Elisiário.
For the leadership of couriers, in addition to offering social security, the regulation of work by application should also bring the employment relationship between the courier and the platforms.
Source: Moneytimes
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