Press

Fairwork in the Press:

• Primicias (10/04/2021) – Plataformas de entrega a domicilio incumplen con estándares de trabajo justo
• Time (10/04/2021) – Why Delivery Drivers in Latin America Are Fighting for Fair Treatment
• Radio Centro Quito (05/04/2021) – Fairwork Ecuador Puntuaciones: Entrevista a María Belén Albornoz
• El Universo (01/04/2021) – Plataformas digitales de reparto obtienen en Ecuador puntajes bajos en indicadores de trabajo justo, según estudio
• SR Radio (31/03/2021) – Fairwork Ecuador: Análisis de las condiciones de trabajo en la economía de plataformas de Ecuador
• Inc42 (31/03/2021) – As Tech Platforms Expand, India’s Gig Economy Can Provide 90 Mn Jobs, Generate $250 Bn In Volume Of Work
• Financial Express (30/03/2021) – India’s gig economy comprising Zomato, Swiggy, Ola, Dunzo, others may serve 90m jobs, add 1.25% to GDP
• Financial Times (23/o3/2021) – Sometimes sleeping on the job should be paid too
• Business Insider Bangladesh (19/03/2021) – Should web-based businesses be brought under govt regulation?
• Klassekampen (18/03/2021) – Dømt til å ansette sjåfører
• WIRED (17/03/2021) – Uber Says Its UK Drivers Are ‘Workers,’ but Not Employees
• Sky News (17/03/2021) – Uber gives workers some entitlements
• The Business Standard News (16/03/2021) – Gig economy: Too early to come under regulation
• ZDF (10/03/2021) – Und die Fahrer gucken in die Röhre (TV)
• Business Standard (26/02/2021) – Zomato to pay more to delivery partners, absorb fuel price rise impact
• BBC News Hour (19/02/21) – UK’s Supreme Court ruling on Uber (Radio)
• TechCrunch (17/02/2021) – Uber could give gig workers a better deal but it’s lobbying EU to lower standards, says Fairwork
• India Spend (11/01/2021) – Gig Jobs Give Women Higher Incomes But Little Security
• The Hindu (05/01/2021) – Quality gigs, a solution to urban unemployment
• The Economic Times (04/01/2021) – Partners on gigs makes Zomato, Swiggy, Ola, Uber run. High time these platforms fixed their issues. 
• The Wire (17/12/2020) – A Pandemic of Discontent: The Growing Woes of India’s
• Food Delivery Workers
• Yahoo News (17/12/2020) – Zomato Ranks Worst in Working Conditions in 2020 Fairwork India Ranking, Deepinder Goyal Admits Company’s Abysmal Performance, Assures They Will Perform Better
• Live Mint (16/12/2020) – Urban Company is the best app-based platform to work with in India: report
• The Economic Times (16/12/2020) – Zomato, Swiggy score 1/10 on working conditions for their workers 
• Hindustan Times (16/12/2020) – Zomato ranked worst on ‘Fairwork’ ratings, co-founder pledges to improve work conditions | Ranking
• Business Standard (16/12/2020) – Will leave no stone unturned to improve working conditions: Zomato
• CNBC TV18 (16/12/2020) – Zomato CEO takes responsibility as company scores 1/10 on working conditions for delivery partners.
• MoneyControl (15/12/2020) – Fairwork India Ratings 2020: Urban Company tops list in working conditions
• Financial Express (15/12/2020) – Swiggy, Uber, Zomato least while Urban Company most ‘fair’ in working conditions for gig workers: Study
• DailyHunt (15/12/2020) – Fairwork Project Finds Flipkart Best Indian Startup To Work For; Ola, Uber Worst
• ITWeb (10/11/2020) – New Code of Good Practice to protect gig workers in SA
• Financial Mail South Africa (10/09/2020) – SA ride-hailing business faces legal speed bump
• BBC (28/08/20) – How algorithms keep workers in the dark
• Herald Live (21/05/2020) – “Jobbing” through unemployment crisis
• MoneyWeb (21/05/2020) – The gig economy – will there be anything left?
• eNCA All Angles (20/05/2020) – [Television interview, no title]
• IOL (20/05/2020) – Gig workers hit hard by Covid-19
• Engineering News (19/05/2020) – How Covid-19 has affected the gig economy in South Africa
• IT Online (19/05/2020) – Covid-19 and its effect on SA’s gig economy
• Gadget (19/05/2020) – Saving the gig economy
• Staffing Industry Analysts (06/05/2020) – Gig Economy Firms must do more to protect workers, report says.
• Bot Populi (01/05/2020) – It’ a no-win for gig workers in the Covid-19 moment
• TechRound (30/04/2020) – “Uber and Deliveroo’s ‘Charter Of Good Work’ Is Nothing But Fairwashing”, The Fairwork project
• Yiba (24/03/2020) – The Fairwork Project
• Fast Company (23/03/2020) – SA gig economy report: The truth about working for Uber-like companies
• Cape Talk (20/03/2020) – Impact of Covid-19 on the gig economy (Radio interview)
• Daily Maverick (20/03/2020) – SA gig workers may be vital, and yet vulnerable, during the pandemic
• HyperText (18/03/2020) – South Africa’s COVID-19 crisis brings gig economy workers into sharper focus
• UOL (03/02/2020) – Pago Por Clique: A promessa de trabalho remoto da era digital se transformou numa servidão contemporânea
• Carta Capital (25/11/2019) – Como construir uma “gig economy” mais justa em quatro etapas
• America Economia (21/11/2019) – “Los trabajadores de plataformas, las plataformas y la economía gig están definidos por la vulnerabilidad de los trabajadores”
• NextConomy (22/08/2019) – Fairwork zet 5 standaarden uit voor ‘gigwork’
• BBC Business Daily (02/08/2019) – A global gig economy: Are freelancing platforms threatening worker’s rights?
• The Wire (01/08/2019) – As Zomato Confronts Communal Bias, Liberal Stand Can Brings Costs, and Benefits Too
• Retina (27/05/2019) – El futuro del trabajo “La automatización promueve la inequidad”
• University World News (17/05/2019) – Innovation for the public good in a deeply unequal society
• The Deccan Herald (16/04/2019) – Flipkart secures highest score in IIITV rankings (Print Only)
• Diginomica ( 16/04/2019) – Building a fair working environment for the gig economy – a UK/South African idea takes shape
• Der Tagesspiegel (15/04/2019) – Plattformökonomie braucht Mindeststandards
• Business Live (11/04/2019) – Fairwork exposes exploitation in gig economy amid regulatory vacuum
• Tech World (09/04/2019) – Could a working conditions rating system protect gig economy workers?
• Newsclick (02/04/2019) – Ola, Uber, FoodPanda are some of the worst employers, finds study
• New Internationalist (01/04/2019) – Holding platforms accountable to digital workers’ rights
• ITWebAfrica (29/03/2019) – Fairwork rating system for digital economy pilots in SA
• Business Insider (27/03/2019) – In India, Flipkart tops the ‘fairness’ quotient for gig economy workers: Report
• YourStory (27/03/2019) – Flipkart, Dunzo, Bigbasket rank highest in ‘fair pay’ on gig economy scoreboard
• Gooruf (27/03/2019) – Flipkart ranked highly for ‘fairness’ of working conditions in India gig platform study
• Daily Maverick (26/03/2019) – Uber, Taxify score poorly in Oxford University study on South African digital platform working conditions
• Tech Crunch (26/03/2019) – Flipkart ranked highly for ‘fairness’ of working conditions in India gig platform study
• All Africa (26/03/2019) – South Africa: Uber, Taxify Score Poorly in Oxford University Study On South African Digital Platform Working Conditions
• IT News Africa (25/03/2019) – Rating working conditions in the digital economy with Fairwork
• Quartz India (16/03/2019) – The ugly truth behind being a gig-economy worker in India
• The East African (15/03/2019) – What will the popularity of online shopping in Africa mean for jobs?
• New Internationalist (28/02/2019) – Networked but commodified: digital labour in the remote gig economy
• Open Democracy (16/12/2018) – Grassroots action prominent in the platform economy
• The Atlantic (31/08/2018) – The Online Gig Economy’s ‘Race to the Bottom’
• The University of Cape Town News (28/08/2018) – Project to protect workers in digital gig economy
• Red Pepper (18/06/2018) – Tyranny of the Mechanical Turk: The rise and rise of digital platform work 
• WIRED (21/03/2017) – The Hidden Dangers of the Global Gig-Economy