Objective is to curb crimes committed by false delivery people who use generic accessories to simulate work with delivery
Delivery applications in Rio de Janeiro will be required to provide free thermal scholarships used by deliveries for the transportation of snacks and goods. Accessories should be supplied exclusively by platforms and should contain applications logos and be numbered individually to facilitate tracking.
The law regulating the measure was passed by the (Legislative Assembly of the State of Rio de Janeiro), sanctioned by the governor (PL) and published in an extra edition of the Official Gazette on Tuesday (15.Jul.2025). The standard will come into force within 90 days.
The new law states that companies should maintain an updated registration of all equipment delivered to each employee. The scholarships must have the appropriate thermal insulation and sealing and the delivery platforms will have to replace them in cases of wear, damage or proven need.
In case of non -compliance, companies will be able to have the service suspended temporarily and may have to pay a fine of $ 5,000 for each scholarship supplied in disagreement with the standard.
One of the motivations of the new law is also to identify delivery to avoid robberies by people who buy generic bags and pretend to work as application delivery.
Benefits
According to the director of UMB (União Motoboy and Bike) of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Tassiano Alves, the measure is positive for workers, who often need to pay the costs of backpacks of about $ 170 – equivalent to 2 days of work.
Alves explained that a delivery man uses, on average, depending on the weight of the requests he carries and the quality of the materials of the bags, two backpacks per year.
“We saw as a positive point, but with suspicion, because we don’t know if this law really will take revenge.”said Alves. According to the director of UMB, there are platforms that already deliver the backpacks for free, but irregularly.
Alves stated that backpacks are just one of the needs of workers: “The ideal would be the formalization of the category, a better professionalization. It would be much more interesting for everyone, because we would have more rights”.
“We need countless other things, such as more support points. It would need at least 1 in 2 neighborhoods. Because often the person has to heat up food, there is nowhere to go to the bathroom, especially women,” said the director of UMB. He stated that deliveries also need places to charge their cell phones and make meals.
Federal law
The president of AMA-BR (Association of Motor Motor Applications and Autonomous of Brazil), Edgar Francisco da Silva, argues that it is necessary to comply with Law 12,009 of 2009, which regulates the service of motoboy and motorcycle taxi driver and establishes safety rules for these activities, and not propose new state or municipal laws. According to Silva, federal law is not fulfilled and when there is inspection, the worker is punished for being in disagreement with safety standards.
“Federal law asks the person to practice this high -risk profession, they are trained, use security accessories and that they undergo a suitability procedure. Then, she enters a standard. You don’t often see a taxi driver robbing others, because he is in a standard. You don’t see the bus driver assaulting others. Then the bike will have its pattern and a criminal will be difficult to act.”declared the president of AMA-BR.
Costs
Delivery platforms criticized the new law. They claim excessive and poorly effective costs for applications. AMOBITEC (Brazilian Association of Mobility and Technology), which represents technology companies such as 99, Alibaba, Amazon, Buser, iFood, Flixbus, Lalamove, Nocnoc, Shein, Uber and Zé Delivery said the new law imposes “Excessive operational costs and charges to the sector, without guarantee of effective improvement in safety, because they are difficult to execute and supervision, as well as being susceptible to fraud.”
The Association said that new obligations “They configure a disproportionate intervention of the state in the dynamics of operation of legitimate and already regulated economic activities.”
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