Low pay, high danger: Thai delivery riders suffer accidents at high rates

Two of three delivery riders keeping Bangkok and Thailand fed at home have been in accidents at least once – some many more – for which they get zero support from their employers.

As the riders struggle for better pay and benefits, a survey of more than 1,100 of them found that they risk their health and safety while being saddled with heavy workloads, low wages and few legal protections. 

“It seems that the leaping growth of the food delivery business comes with many problems,” Rocket Media Lab said in a statement. “Riders in Thailand are not eligible to be regulated by labor protection laws as ‘platform labor’ such as a standard wage rate or other types of welfare.”

While the pandemic peaked this year, hundreds of riders for the food delivery applications have rallied to demand access to benefits afforded other workers and the reversal of…