The proportion of online car hailing platform is reduced, and some drivers say that the income will decline instead of rising

Some platforms charge the driver with additional fees and passenger discounts

The proportion of online car hailing platform was reduced, and some drivers said that the income would decline instead of rising

Scholars believe that the proportional adjustment involves the balance of interests among three parties and should establish an open, transparent and reasonable decision-making mechanism

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A report from our newspaper (reporter Tang Shu) recently, the relevant person in charge of the Ministry of Transport said that by the end of July, all major online car hailing platforms had announced a reduction in the proportion, with the reduction rate generally ranging from 1% to 3%. In April of this year, the Ministry of Transport released the Work Plan for Promoting the Platform Enterprises in the New Business Type of Transport to Reduce the Excessive Proportion of the Platform in 2023, which urged major online taxi hailing platform companies to reduce the upper limit of the excessive proportion of the platform. In this regard, some taxi hailing drivers on the visited website said that the downgrade was a good thing, but their feelings were unclear; Some drivers also reported that the revenue did not rise but fell due to the continuous promotion of preferential activities on the platform.

"The proportion of each order is different, and it's impossible to feel it if you cut it by two or three points." Master Chen, a taxi driver who has been engaged in Hefei, Anhui for more than two years, showed the details of his order charges on September 3 to reporters. The proportion of orders paid by passengers with 8.25 yuan, 32.92 yuan and 85.45 yuan is 21.2%, 25.6% and 29% respectively. The reporter consulted the customer service of the car hailing platform of the network as a driver. The other side said that each order will charge a different proportion of service fees due to the influence of order distance, time length, car pooling and other factors. "The proportion is still very high," said Master Chen.

There are many people who feel the same way as Master Chen. Some interviewed drivers said that although the proportion of draw had declined, the actual income had declined instead of rising. An online taxi hailing driver in Tianjin calculated an account in a video released on the social platform: for an order of 100.46 yuan of freight, the platform showed that the proportion was 11.3%, and the driver should have earned 89.11 yuan. However, because the platform gave a discount of 24.77 yuan to passengers, the passengers actually paid 75.69 yuan, and the actual remuneration received by the driver was only 67.14 yuan. "I don't understand why the driver should pay for the discount offered by the platform," said the driver.

"A single passenger paid more than 80 yuan for a trip, but I only got 50 yuan, and more than 30% of the money was deducted." Zhao Shifu, a Beijing online taxi driver, said that his online taxi hailing platform is attached to the aggregation platform, and on the basis of the online taxi hailing platform, the aggregation platform will also draw service fees, and his income will not rise but fall.

In this regard, Master Chen also reflected that there have been more preferential orders recently, and the platform has also forced the distribution of orders. "Some special price lists only earn 1.2 yuan per kilometer for drivers, and they don't earn much money. But if you don't receive the special price list platform, you won't be given other orders."

In this regard, Xiao Zhu, a professor of the Law School of the China Institute of Labor Relations, believes that the proportional adjustment involves the balance of interests among the platform, online taxi hailing drivers and consumers, and an open, transparent and reasonable decision-making mechanism should be established.

In this regard, Xiao Zhu suggested that the competent department of the industry should take the lead to establish a reasonable formation mechanism for the income of platform workers, including order distribution, proportion, labor quota, working hours, reward and punishment system, etc. At the same time, relevant trade union organizations, industry associations, enterprise representative organizations, etc. will actively negotiate on an equal basis, and constantly explore the democratic management forms suitable for the characteristics of new employment groups such as industrial (regional) workers' congress, labor and capital talks, so as to establish an institutionalized and normalized formation mechanism for the realization of labor rights and interests such as the growth of labor income of workers in new industries.

Workers' Daily Tang Shu

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