Drivers for Singapore’s food delivery and ride-hailing companies are often working almost 60 hours a week, a survey found, underscoring the lack of protections for gig workers in the city-state.
About 29% of drivers work more than 59 hours a week, according to a survey of nearly 1,000 workers by the National University of Singapore’s Institute of Policy Studies. About one-quarter of the drivers surveyed worked for exclusively for Gojek. The rest said they also drove for other companies, including Grab Holdings Ltd.
Singapore, along with governments around the world, is considering legislative changes to protect gig-economy workers.
Ride-hailing and food-delivery companies like Gojek, Grab, Delivery Hero SE’s Foodpanda and Deliveroo Plc. have flourished during the pandemic but also exacerbated social inequities.
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