Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT).
App-based workers federation serves writ petition to Zomato, Swiggy, Ola, Uber India Food aggregator Zomato informed stock exchanges on Wednesday about a writ petition in the nature of public interest litigation (PIL) before the Supreme Court of India from the Indian Federation of App-based Transport Workers (IFAT).
The IFAT, formed in September 2019, is a workers’ organisation representing app-based transport and delivery workers. Its petition names Zomato, Bundl Technologies (Swiggy), ANI Technologies (Ola), and UberIndia Systems, as respondents, apart from Central Government Ministries, according to the exchange filing.
The writ petition seeks the Supreme Court’s intervention to direct the Government to “notify or recognize app based workers as ‘workers’ or alternatively be recognised as ‘unorganised workers’ or ‘wage workers’ under various labour or social security legislations”, Zomato informed the stock markets.