| The Gig Economy is developing rapidly in the digital age,and digital labour groups such as takeaway riders are growing.China’s new industry is developing rapidly and has a promising future,and workers in new employment forms such as takeaway riders are making outstanding contributions to residents’ lives and urban development,while the protection of their labour rights and interests is still lacking at present along with the development of new business forms.The protection of labour rights and interests of new employment forms such as takeaway riders is a necessary requirement to adapt to the development of new technologies,new industries and new modes,and to promote people’s well-being and achieve common prosperity.In the report of the 20th Party Congress,General Secretary Xi Jinping pointed out the need to "implement the strategy of giving priority to employment and strengthen the protection of the rights and interests of workers in flexible employment and new forms of employment".During the 2023 National People’s Congress,the topic of protecting the labour rights and interests of newly employed groups received widespread attention from delegates and members of the public.On January 26,2022,General Secretary Xi Jinping came to Duan Village,Sengnian Town,Fenxi County,Shanxi Province,to inspect the situation of consolidating and expanding the results of poverty eradication and promoting rural revitalization.In the process of effectively connecting the achievements of poverty alleviation with rural revitalization,the national grassroots counties are the main battlefield,and food delivery riders are a new force.It is particularly important to protect the labor rights and interests of county food delivery riders to realize the effective connection between the achievements of poverty alleviation and rural revitalization.Protecting the labour rights of takeaway riders is one of the policy landing points to promote county economic governance,social security development,employment of key groups and construction of zero-worker market in Fenxi County,Shanxi Province.From the perspective of employment priority strategy,based on the theory of Gig Economy,Labour Process,Demand Hierarchy and Human Capital,CiteSpace analysis,field survey method,rooted theory research with Nvivo software coding and comparative research method are used to investigate the "portrait keywords" involved in the labour rights and interests protection of takeaway riders in Fenxi County,"labour status" "race against time""distant protection" and "professional ferryman".The core categories were coded;the current situation was described that the workers had signed employment contracts with the platform of dedicated delivery,and that they were basically satisfied with the labour remuneration and had good physical and mental health,that most of them had participated in urban and rural residents medical insurance and some of them had carried out vocational training and educational upgrading;the lack of collective organization and social support,the coexistence of long working hours and transportation risks,the social insurance straying and the lack of collective organizations and social support,long hours of labour and traffic risks,social insurance and accident insurance coverage,and the difficulty of matching platform training and government vocational training with the needs of riders were analyzed,revealing that the reasons for this are the digital involution in the platform economy,the replacement of evaluation rights in the social network,the incomplete coverage in the social security network,and the dilemma of life pressure.Referring to the policy choice of "independent contractors" in the United States,the jurisprudence of "algorithmic discrimination" in Italy,the concept of "third category of workers" in the United Kingdom,and the vocational training in Germany,as well as the new business model of the Party building in Yonghe County,Shanxi Province,"one vehicle,one person,one box,one code" management model of new employment groups,in Jiaxing City,Zhejiang Province,occupational injury protection policy in Suzhou,Jiangsu Province,and"specialization" training in Shanghai and other domestic and international experience,there are a number of revelations about policy options and work paths,platform monitoring and security protection,integrative and creative safeguards as well as types and methods of vocational training in order to strive to integrate with the international and domestic standards.On this basis,countermeasures are the actions taken to improve labour status rights and interests protection by enhancing organisational support and social support,enhance labour process rights and interests protection by strengthening platform governance and safety protection,improve labour insurance rights and interests protection by enhancing awareness and social security coverage and carry out labour development rights and interests protection by upgrading vocational training and employment services,with a view to providing a reference for labour rights and interests protection for takeaway riders in Fenxi County,providing a practical method and path for protecting the labor rights and interests of county delivery riders at the grassroots level,and promoting the governance of digital labor related fields and the sustainable development of county economy. |
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