They are asking for a special law for home delivery workers

The Institute of Advanced Trade Union Studies of Venezuela (Inaesin) called on Thursday for a “special law” for home delivery workers, which contemplates their “rights and interests” and establishes the “minimum working conditions”.

The organization said in a press release that the State “must encourage” the promulgation of this law, which contemplates conditions of “health, rates, permits, unionization, collective bargaining, social security, protection of maternity and paternity,” as well as “obligations for the employer” in case of accidents related to home delivery work.

For Inaesin, these workers – around 300,000, according to the Venezuelan Chamber of Electronic Commerce (Cavecom-e) – “must understand their leading role in the new labor relations” and take initiatives to form unions that “protect and defend their interests, supervise compliance with the norms intended to guarantee social security,” among other aspects.

He also stated that the rights of these workers and their objectives “cannot and should not be limited to the struggle for rights,” but that “it is important that this sector is empowered economically and socially” to generate “a solid block that represents them.”

In March, the president of Cavecom-e, Richard Ujueta, told Efe that home delivery is “fundamental” in e-commerce, which closed 2023 with a 150% increase in growth compared to 2022, a sector that “began to grow precisely in the pandemic in 2020”, when “the need made the merchant” join “in a massive way” in this activity.