The House of Representatives approved on Wednesday (10), for 300 votes in favor and 99 opposites, the urgency for the assessment of the Bill (PL) 1,579/2025which ensures the right to food to application delivery. Under the proposal, application companies are required to grant deliveries a time voucher of at least $ 20 every four uninterrupted hours or six hours of work.
With the approval of the urgency, the proposal can be voted directly in the plenary, without going through the commissions of the house. If approved, the project will be applied to the registered delivery man with at least one month in the respective application.
The authors of the project, Deputies Talíria Petrone (PSOL-RJ) and Juliana Cardos (PT-SP), argue that while workers face exhaustive hours and severe feeding restrictions during working hours, “delivery application companies accumulate significant profits.”
Study data Hunger deliveriesfrom the NGO Action of Citizenship, of August 2024, point out that three out of ten delivery people live in a situation of food insecurity. The survey also revealed that most deliveries work every day of the week and on hours more than nine hours.
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For the rapporteur of the proposal, Deputy Daniel Almeida (PCdoB-BA), the study highlights a scenario of precarious work of application by application. Also according to the rapporteur, with the project, the vast majority of application delivery would receive around R $ 40 per day of work as a meal voucher.
The benefit will be granted by electronic means, from credit directly on the digital delivery platform to which the worker is linked, for exclusive use for food acquisition. It is also prohibited the conversion of the benefit into pecunia or its discount of remuneration for deliveries made.
Almeida also argues that the initiative is in line with what determines the Federal Constitution of 1988, in regulating Article 6, which places the right to food as resulting from the right to life and dignity of the human person, and the Government must adopt the policies and actions that are necessary to promote and ensure the food and nutritional security of the population.
“The approval of this bill not only corrects a serious injustice with the category of delivery, but, above all, reaffirms the primacy of work and the social value of the free initiative, in accordance with the postulate of the utmost effectiveness of fundamental rights,” he argued.
