Regulating Platform Delivery Work in Argentina. Tensions between regulations and the priorities of workers.

PEREYRA, FRANCISCA; POBLETE, LORENA

AFD Research Papers

Éditions Agence Française de Développement

Lugar: Paris; Año: 2022 p. 1 - 34

The quarantine imposed in March 2020 shed light on the essential labour performed by digital delivery platforms´ workers and their precarious labour conditions. In order to protect them, seven draft bills were proposed to Congress in Argentina, oscillating between a salaried/independent classification of these workers. This article analyses how these regulatory proposals deal with three dimensions that are at the center of workers´ own concerns when it comes to the regulation of the activity: the preservation of flexible schedules, the continuity of income self-regulation -even though this often means overworking- and the need to access effectively social protection -where the absence of occupational hazards insurance stands out. The methodological strategy used is qualitative as well as quantitative. The empirical data analized includes: 1) focus groups and individual interviews with delivery workers; 2) a corpus of legal documents; 3) a survey conducted in two steps, in 2019 and 2020.