Couriers and Covid-19: A delivery to the Legislative Power

Abstract

While many categories of work have reinvented themselves during the Covid-19 pandemic, app delivery work has increased considerably their demands due to commercial restrictions and social isolation. The state of public calamity, added to the precariousness of work by platform and the absence of a regulation of the profession, triggered the so-called “Breque dos Apps”. The collective organization of delivery workers played an important role in putting pressure on the public sphere for basic guarantees and rights for those workers who during the pandemic have further highlighted their essentiality. This paper is the result of a documentary research carried out in the main legislative houses headquartered in Federal District, along with interviews with the main stakeholders identified in the courier’s fight. The objective of the research is to observe how the claim of the couriers, as well as their working conditions were addressed by the legislative power during the pandemic.