The majority of workers in Bangladesh’s gig economy do not receive fair pay, benefits or even a contract from online platforms, revealing the awful situation in ensuring the rights of those workers, according to a recent study.

The paper, titled “Fairwork Bangladesh Ratings 2022: Labour Standards in the Platform Economy”, also found that players in the gig economy have poor working conditions amidst the absence of proper representation. The report was launched by Fairwork Bangladesh, a collaboration between the Dhaka-based DataSense and the Oxford Internet Institute of the University of Oxford in England, at Brac Centre Inn in Dhaka today.

The study interviewed 91 workers from 9 platforms: Uber, Foodpanda, Pathao, Sheba.xyz, HungryNaki, Obhai, HelloTask, Truck Lagbe, and Chaldal.

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