FOOD delivery operatives who constantly break traffic rules when riding e-bikes face being suspended or fired, three leading food delivery companies in Shanghai announced yesterday.

In cooperation with police in Pudong, ele.me, meituan.com and Baidu now require their food delivery operatives to carry a card with them that records any traffic offenses discovered by police or company inspectors.

In the past two weeks, about 1,500 food delivery workers in Zhangjiang, Huamu and Tangqiao areas have been given the card, and hundreds of offenses have been recorded on them, police said.

Those who accumulated 12 demerits will be suspended from work for a day to take an online test on traffic rules and to work as traffic volunteers with police.

Shen Jie, a food delivery man who started to work for meituan.com three months ago at this job in Zhangjiang Town, was one of the first to be suspended. At the crossroads of Jinke Road and Zuchongzhi Road where he worked as a traffic volunteer yesterday, Shen told Shanghai Daily that he would pay more attention to traffic rules in future.

Food delivery workers who notch up more than 36 demerits over three months will be fired and banned from being rehired at the three companies.