Back to delivery work, with Klang Valley under CMCO

Many Malaysians have become delivery riders.

PETALING JAYA: A food delivery company has seen Malaysians returning to work as delivery riders after the Klang Valley was placed under a conditional movement control order.

DeliverEat co-founder Shirmein Leong said many riders joined the company during the national MCO lockdown in March as their full-time jobs were not considered essential services. They left after their companies were allowed to operate again.

With Selangor, Kuala Lumpur and Putrajaya currently under the CMCO from Oct 14 to Oct 27, many former riders had since returned to work with DeliverEat for the two-week period.

There has been speculation that the partial lockdown might be extended if the number of Covid-19 infections does not decrease.

“We have a database of riders who were previously with us but returned to their full-time jobs. Now with the second movement restriction order they are ready to be back on board with DeliverEat.”

DeliverEat co-founder Shirmein Leong.

Shirmein added that the company had hired a “larger pool” of riders in anticipation for the higher number of orders over the next two weeks. She said they expected a 15% to 20% increase in deliveries and had learned how to prepare for it based on previous experiences operating under lockdown restrictions.

A Grab spokesperson told FMT that the company had transferred 100,000 Grab drivers to their delivery network for the next two weeks. She said demand for transport had declined by 90% during the last round of lockdowns, while orders for food, supermarket and delivery services increased by 30%.

She also said that 25% of the company’s deliveries were made by Grab drivers, with over 10,000 Malaysians joining the platform as new delivery partners.

The spokesperson said Grab had helped traders at wet markets and bazaars to sell their food products, and provided free advertising for small and independent businesses on the Grab mobile app.

Under CMCO rules, business hours are from 6am to 10pm for restaurants, shops, food stalls, food-trucks, roadside stalls, food courts, hawker centres, sundry shops and convenience stores.

Daily markets can operate from 6am to 2pm, wholesale markets from 4am to 2pm, wet markets or pasar tani from 6am to 12pm, while night markets can open from 4pm to 10pm.

Dine-in customers at eateries are allowed, but only with two per table.

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