From Monday gig workers will be classified as ‘employee-like workers’ and given many of the protections afforded to employees, but not all.
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Gig workers are more stressed than other types of workers. Two experts explain coping strategies that are likely to help, and which to avoid.
The pandemic home-delivery boom is driving a push to automation and precarious work by Australian supermarkets.
Food delivery workers are now essential workers. But they’re still not treated as employees.
The online game of geocaching shows there are ways to create value online that are not purely financial.
The business models of the gig economy often stand in the way of implementing minimum wages or conditions.
While there has been a rise in contracting out and ‘disruptors’ such as Uber, employment is an will remain the dominant method of business operation in a capitalist setting.
Some of the newest enterprises online are those which link workers to anyone who wants a job done. They’re not concerned with employment or jobs but with “tasks”. These are small, one-off, discrete portions…
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