Xinhua: China to let ride-hailing drivers, delivery workers form unions

A delivery worker of Ele.me picks up food from the kitchen of a takeaway restaurant, in Beijing, China. Chinese authorities have targeted platform companies driving the so-called “gig economy” this year, as part of a wave of regulatory tightening that has lasted over a year. — Reuters

BEIJING: China plans to amend laws to allow ride-hailing drivers and food delivery workers to form unions, state media reported on Dec 17.

China will review the amendment on its trade union law starting December and plans to add rules to expand the type of organisations and work for which unions can be formed, the spokesperson for China’s parliament's Legislative Affairs Commission Yue Zhongming said at a news conference on Friday, according to Xinhua.