Sri Lanka’s app-based taxi drivers and delivery workers are classified as freelancers or self-employed workers, an independent worker status outside labor regulation. They are not covered by hard-won labor laws that mandate a minimum wage, social protections, and the right to join or form a union and bargain collectively.
The Solidarity Center surveyed and interviewed Sinhalese and Tamil platform workers in Colombo, Sri Lanka, to learn about the conditions they are working to change in the country’s growing informal economy.