Platform riders ‘deserve better benefits’

A Thammasat University academic says that digital platform riders should be categorised as company employees under the social security law, and not a type of informal worker with limited access to basic work benefits.

- CHAIRITH YONPIAM

These riders are incorrectly categorised as “semi-independent” workers, one of the two types of informal workers defined by the freelance labour bill, said Asst Prof Kritsada Theerakosonphong, a lecturer at Thammasat University’s Faculty of Social Administration and member of a subcommittee on the development of the Social Security system under Section 40 of the Social Security Act, yesterday.