#labour-policy

Construction, farm, delivery and street workers are pushed to keep working through extreme heat by piece rates, dismissal fears, and absent regulation. Voluntary employer guidance has repeatedly failed, producing preventable deaths from Qatar to Madrid to the US Sun Belt.

The levers that make the refill model profitable (route-density engineering, cutoff batching, automation) are the same ones that cut labour per delivery. Higher operator profit and many stable jobs cannot both be maximised, so job creation must be a deliberate, costed choice.