Out of the frying pan, into the fire? Meal couriers sweat amid heatwave
Utrecht, Netherlands/Palermo, Italy Reuters As Europe braces for another heatwave, one group of workers has little choice but to sweat it out: the couriers shuttling around town getting lunches and dinners to customers. “It’s hot, sometimes really hot. But what can we do? God is in charge of the weather,” says Gennaro Guarracino, 47, who […]
“Like slaves”: Lebanon’s delivery riders struggle as crisis bites
MAYA GEBEILY and TIMOUR AZHARI, of Thomson Reuters Foundation, report on the challenges facing freelance delivery workers in the Middle Eastern nation…