Within days after trending on social platforms, food delivery app Zomato has again made headlines as its executives in Howrah are on an indefinite strike.
The food delivery executives are on a strike protesting against delivering beef and pork. The employees told news agency ANI that Zomato was not listening to their demands.
The delivery executives have refused to deliver beef or pork during the festive celebrations of Bakrid or Eid al-Adha to be celebrated this week on Monday.
“The company is not listening to our demands and forcing us to deliver beef and pork against our will. Hindus have a problem is delivering beef while Muslims do not want to deliver pork. Our Hindu friends are having a problem in delivering beef and they are denying doing so. It’s been heard that in few days we have to deliver Pork, which we have also refused to do. We are not ready to deliver such things on any condition. We are forced to deliver such things. The company has also rolled back our payout. We have been on strike for a week now,” ANI quotes protestor Mausin Akhtar as saying.
The delivery executives demand that Zomato must stop playing with the religious sentiment of their employees.
Both Hindu and Muslim executives have reportedly decided to go on strike and have refused to deliver the food that is beyond their religiously acceptable guidelines.
Meanwhile, the West Bengal government has taken cognisance of the matter, and irrigation minister Rajib Banerjee said the organisation should not force any person to go against their religion.
“The organisation should not force any person to go against their religion. It is wrong. Now that I have received information in this regard, I will look into it the matter,” Banerjee said.
Zomato is yet to react in the matter.
Recently, Zomato was in the news after a customer declined to receive an order which was being delivered by a non-Hindu rider. Reacting on the same, the company supported its employees.