App-based Parliamentary Inquiry Commission demands control over working hours and increased safety for workers.

247 - City councilors in São Paulo have asked the city government and the National Congress for measures to regulate app-based delivery and passenger transport services. The requests are in the final report of the CPI on Apps approved in session this Monday (12). The document will be sent to the Public Prosecutor's Office, the Ministry of Labor and Social Security and consumer protection agencies.

According to information published this Monday (12) by Folha de S.Paulo newspaperWorkers are demanding social security (health, pension, and social assistance) for drivers and motorcycle couriers. City councilors requested that the municipality monitor the working hours of drivers and delivery workers. They also advocated for an increase in the R$ 0,12 fee charged to companies per kilometer driven.

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The document showed that, according to records from the Traffic Engineering Company (CET), at least 77 (28%) of the 275 motorcyclists killed in traffic accidents in 2021 worked as motorcycle couriers. The number may be higher due to a lack of identification of the victim's profession.

"The apps do not offer a necessary security system to meet all this demand and protect their employees and the entire population that uses public roads," the report said. "There is no health assistance system offered to drivers, so accidents involving motorcycle couriers also tend to burden the Unified Health System (SUS), causing another loss to public funds from which the companies exempt themselves without any embarrassment, which can no longer be tolerated."

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Members of the CPI, chaired by councilman Adilson Amadeu (União Brasil), heard from drivers, motorcycle couriers, interviewed doctors, a director of the Health Surveillance Coordination of the capital of São Paulo, and a sociologist specializing in occupational health.

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