The reporter's investigation found that some recruiters lure job seekers to rent cars under the pretext of directly recruiting high paying riders. Once the rider requests termination of the contract, they will be informed that they need to pay vehicle damage fees, intermediary service fees, etc. Some disputes may also involve "car rental loan" scams, which are worth being wary of. Due to his low income after graduation, Xiao Shi, who works in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, plans to become a part-time rider after work. When he was applying for a job on a recruitment platform, an account claiming to provide a delivery rider position proactively contacted him, offering free electric vehicles for him to run orders. During the formal interview, I was only informed that I needed to meet the running order requirements in order to be exempt from car rental, otherwise I would need to pay a monthly rent of 799 yuan. ”Recently, Xiao Shi told a reporter from the Workers' Daily that he signed a two month paper contract offline, but the other party opened up a three-month car rental service for him on a third-party platform, claiming that the minimum contract signed on the rental platform was three months, and verbally promised to terminate the contract in the second month. Due to failing to meet the rent free requirement of running at least 15 orders per day, Xiaoshi was charged a monthly electric vehicle rent of 799 yuan for the first two months before running the orders. However, one week after returning the car, Xiaoshi found that the rental service agreement on the platform had not been terminated. At this year's National People's Congress and Chinese People's Political Consultative Conference, Li Chengxia, a representative of the National People's Congress, stated that a delivery driver who only worked for one day was charged six months' rent when returning the car. A reporter from the Workers' Daily found through investigation and interviews that some food delivery riders have also encountered similar difficulties. When asked to terminate the contract, he was informed that he needed to pay a car damage fee. According to Xiao Shi's recollection, he had contacted the store multiple times a week before returning the car to confirm the return matter, and released the car and took photos as required. However, a week later, I found that the car rental platform still hadn't terminated the contract. I repeatedly called the store and customer service, only to hear a loop of responses from artificial intelligence. ”Xiao Shi said that he eventually found the store phone number through map software, but was told that he still needed to pay a car damage fee of 1500 yuan to terminate the contract. I have saved communication records with the store and videos of returning the car. After multiple negotiations and communications, the other party still refuses to terminate the contract and notifies me to pay the overdue electric vehicle rent. ”Xiao Shi said. Lu Yang, a food delivery rider who runs orders in Shenzhen, Guangdong, has had similar experiences with many of his friends. Most of them are taken to offline stores after seeing job positions for hiring riders on recruitment platforms, and then the staff directly operate the applicants' mobile phones to apply for car rental agreements through online payment platforms, with a monthly rent of six to seven hundred yuan, "said Lu Yang. However, after signing the contract, a rider discovered an additional rider service fee of 399 yuan per month in the car rental mini program. ”Lu Yang told reporters that this fee, which was referred to as intermediary service fee by the staff, was rarely mentioned actively during the signing of the contract. "If the rider fails to pay the rent on time, they may also be charged a late fee of 0.05% of the rent." In addition, several interviewed riders told reporters that the quality of their rented electric vehicles varies, and sometimes problems such as parts damage and vehicle malfunctions may occur. The electric bike I rented had a broken wire and suddenly stopped, causing me to crash, "said Xiao Hu, who works as a delivery rider in Beijing. As a result, the rental shop demanded that he pay an additional 150 yuan for vehicle maintenance. Beware of potential pitfalls in car rental contracts. A delivery rider with similar experience, Mr. Fang, told reporters: "I conducted a series of operations under the guidance of the staff, signed the contract in a confused manner, and only found out after running the order for 4 days that it was impossible to achieve the promised 'easy return on investment'. When I requested termination of the contract, the other party even said they would sue me if they did not pay the full rent of 699 yuan." Through sorting out public cases, the reporter found that some disputes between car rental stores and riders may involve new types of 'car rental loan' fraud. In a case accepted by the People's Procuratorate of Baohe District, Hefei City, Anhui Province, the suspect Gu et al., under the name of "recruiting riders on behalf of others", lied about cooperating with the delivery platform, induced Bai to sign a high price car rental contract, and claimed that the company would give a high subsidy after the monthly performance reached the standard, and the subsidy could basically offset the car rental cost, which was about equal to free car use. However, when Bai signed the contract and started running orders, he found that the monthly performance standards could not be met according to the actual work situation, so he proposed to terminate the contract in advance, but was repeatedly shirked. Later, Bai discovered that the lease contract he signed was actually a loan contract, and the monthly rent paid was used to repay the platform's loan. However, the loan money fell into Gu's pocket and was much higher than the price of the electric vehicle. Finally, after examination, the procuratorate prosecuted Gu and others for fraud in accordance with the law, and the court sentenced Gu and others to punishment in accordance with the law. Regarding this, Lin Qi, a lawyer from Beijing Zeying Law Firm, stated in an interview with the Workers' Daily that we need to be wary of some traps in such contracts. For example, if the recruiting party uses the pretext of directly recruiting high paying riders, but actually induces job seekers to rent cars, and hides key information such as installment payments and high breach of contract fines in the contract, this behavior may constitute fraud, and job seekers have the right to apply for contract revocation. Regarding clauses involving requirements such as payment before termination, Lin Qi believes that these clauses belong to typical "overbearing clauses". The recruitment party unilaterally sets a high service fee as a prerequisite for terminating the contract, depriving job seekers of their right to terminate the contract and protect their rights. Such clauses are invalid in themselves, and even if job seekers sign the agreement, they can legally revoke it, and the fees already paid can be recovered, "Lin Qi said. Recruitment platforms should review recruitment information. Reporters have learned from multiple food delivery platforms that job seekers applying for positions as delivery drivers through official channels do not need to pay any fees. A food delivery platform has announced that it will not recommend any loan financial products to riders during recruitment, and there are no outsourced or authorized intermediary companies for rider recruitment. It reminds riders to beware of high priced car rental loan scams when applying for jobs. In the opinion of Xue Jun, a professor at Peking University Law School, recruitment platforms should conduct basic information review on the parties who publish recruitment information, and the level of responsibility should match the benefits obtained by the platform from it. If the recruiting party pays to publish information, the platform should bear higher review obligations, and after receiving complaints, the platform should promptly delete relevant information and allow users to evaluate and provide feedback on the recruiting party. For users who have been deceived, the platform can assist in reporting and providing information to facilitate their rights protection. ”Xue Jun said. Recruitment platforms should not act as' hands off managers' and should establish a sound blacklist system to monitor accounts that frequently post rider positions and are associated with rental companies. Once verified, they should be immediately taken down and intercepted. ”Lin Qi believes that for positions involving riders and others, recruiters should be required to provide proof of cooperation with food delivery platforms and be reminded in a prominent position on the page to be wary of recruitment induced car rental and loans. The essence of such cases is to sell electric vehicles under the guise of recruiting riders. ”Xue Jun suggested that multiple departments should collaborate to combat related chaos. Lin Qi suggested that relevant regulatory authorities should include the companies involved in the case in the list of dishonest individuals. For cases involving large amounts of money and multiple victims, public security organs should initiate investigations on charges such as fraud and forced transactions. In addition, financial regulatory authorities should negotiate with relevant installment platforms and strictly review the qualifications of cooperative merchants. Any behavior that requires applicants to spend money under the guise of providing a position should be highly vigilant. ”Lin Qi reminds workers to verify the identity of the recruiting party, job content, and specific terms of the contract when applying for the job, and to retain evidence such as recruitment screenshots and chat records throughout the process. If they are found to have been deceived, they should immediately report to the police to protect their own rights. (New Society)