Entregadores por aplicativo e a pandemia do Covid-19: implicações da economia de compartilhamento e a atuação da gestão pública

Abstract

The covid-19 pandemic has affected the entire world, with the most significant health crisis seen in recent years. However, in Brazil, another crisis was aggravated by the arrival of the virus: the labor crisis. With the increase in the number of people unoccupied, many have found application delivery an option for personal and family support. As a result, the number of couriers grew exponentially, further highlighting the problems already seen before, arising from the uberization process that has taken place due to the sharing economy proposals. Thus, this work aimed to analyze, from bibliographical and documentary research, points of debate and action of public management concerning the sharing economy, emphasizing the working conditions of application deliverers in times of COVID pandemic -19. For this, we surveyed data from academic periodicals, legislation, and articles from newspapers and magazines, having as orientation key words “sharing economy”, “digital platforms”, “application drivers”, “application deliverers”, “motoboys”, “pandemic”, “covid-19”, “public management”, “public policies”, “economy” and “uberization”. Finally, from this research, we observed critical points that already existed in the pre-pandemic period, which were only accentuated with the arrival of Covid-19. We have government actions as a palliative for labor causes, bills aimed at improving working conditions. However, until then, app deliverers continue to feel the reflection of the absence of public regulations concomitant to the rapid advance of the sharing economy.