Overview
- Unions led by TGPWU, IFAT and GIPSWU called a nationwide walkout on December 31, claiming over 170,000 confirmed participants, but turnout and impact varied by city.
- Platforms raised earnings offers, with Zomato paying ₹120–₹150 per order during 6 p.m.–12 a.m. and Swiggy advertising up to ₹10,000 across Dec 31–Jan 1, which companies described as standard festive practice.
- Zomato CEO Deepinder Goyal said Zomato and Blinkit logged their highest-ever single-day volumes, with more than 75 lakh orders fulfilled by over 4.5 lakh delivery partners and operations largely unaffected.
- Independent reports described limited disruption in many areas despite protests, though some locales saw delays and restaurants leaned on in-house fleets and third-party couriers to hedge supply.
- Worker groups pressed demands to scrap 10-minute delivery targets, restore better payouts, secure social protection, and curb algorithmic penalties and ID blocking, citing earlier punitive responses to protests.