Closing Labor Protection Gaps for Transport Platform Workers

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Abstract

This study will provide a critical analysis of platform transportation work in Indonesia, which has helped millions of Indonesian workers to have easy access to get jobs, especially during the Covid-19 pandemic when new patterns of production, consumption, and distribution of products are introduced through digital platforms. Despite it provide many job opportunities to low-skilled workers and workers with limited mobility, this platform business presents several problems in labour and social protection, which is indicated by the frequent occurrence of conflicts. Authors develops a critique toward existing regulation on platforms from a trade union point of view, and try to contribute to the ongoing debates by offering some proposed regulatory options based on international experience to mitigate the problem. Data were collected through three times focus group discussions (FGD) and interviews (both structured and semi-structured interviews) with a total of 20 people consisting of: platform drivers; platform companies; drivers association leaders, government and social security officer. Those informants selected with purposes-sampling based on the qualities the informant possesses

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)6432-6456
JournalEuropean Chemical Bulletin
Volume12
Issue number8
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 29 Aug 2023

Keywords

  • Labor Protection
  • Platform Work
  • Social Protection

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