Newly Indebted: Deliverers Borrow From Delivery’s Own Apps and Already Owe on Average Nearly $1 Million
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According to the BCRA, the number of workers who were indebted to the platforms grew by 122%. Fees are deducted from the commission for each order. Deliverers report the level of fees. Apps ensure that it is a form of financial inclusion.
Deliverers working for major delivery applications are increasingly turning to loans provided by the same platforms for which they provide services. The modality is growing at the rate of lack of access to bank credit, although from the trade union sector they warn that some financings come to apply interest rates that could reach 700% Source
The delivery application workers began to become more and more indebted to these platforms. The interest rate can reach 700 percent per year, as explained by the union that encompasses them, the Sitrarepa. Belén D’Ambrosio, secretary general of that delivery guild, said that the rates can reach that level and that they are selective credits for those who work long hours for the apps. There are also loans for businesses attached to the services o…
In an economic scenario marked by deregulation and the fall of purchasing power, the ecosystem of delivery applications mutated to a lender of last resort for the workers themselves. The growth of the credits granted by the same platforms to their distributors reflects a new facet of labor precariousness: the worker no longer only contributes his workforce and tools, but also goes on to become indebted with the algorithm that manages his income.…
The platform workers union said that more and more distributors are using loans offered by the applications themselves, and companies argue that they are seeking to expand access to finance for a sector with low banking inclusion.
From the Union of Distribution Workers by Application (Sitrarepa) they warned that delivery providers of delivery platforms face an increasing level of indebtedness based on the credits offered by the applications for which they provide services. According to reports, some financing lines reach interest rates of up to 700% per year. The secretary general, Belén D'Ambrosio, assigned to the agency Noticias Argentinas that these loans are usually i…
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