Food-delivery drivers protesting against wage cuts and gruelling working conditions went on an extremely rare strike in Dubai over the weekend.
The mass walkout paralysed one of the country’s main delivery apps and revived concerns about working conditions in the emirate.
The strike started late on Saturday and ended early on Monday, when Deliveroo agreed in a letter to riders to restore workers’ pay to £2.22 per delivery instead of the proposed rate of £1.89 that had ignited the work stoppage, as the company tried to cut costs amid surging fuel prices.
The firm also backtracked on its plan to extend working shifts to 14 hours a day.
Strikes remain illegal in the United Arab Emirates, an autocratic federation of seven sheikhdoms that bans unions and criminalises dissent.
