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Concerns Hungry Panda s impossible bonus system could encourage food delivery riders to take more risks on the road
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By 7.30 s calculations, even if a rider worked a 10-hour day they would have to deliver seven orders an hour to earn the $65 bonus.
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Workers for food delivery app Hungry Panda have slammed a new bonus system as impossible to achieve, fearing it ll encourage riders to take more risks on the road.
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A former Hungry Panda rider says the food delivery company s new bonus system for riders is unachievable
Big businesses perpetuate the “mythology” that they cannot maintain a flexible work arrangement for workers and also provide them with benefits, says Transport Workers Union National Secretary Michael Kaine.
Mr Kaine told Sky News business like Uber are “raking it in” when it comes to making money while those employed in the gig economy are “terribly exploited” in the process.
“The mythology that these companies push out is that you can’t have a flexible work arrangement and provide workers with rights,” he said.
A recent Supreme Court ruling in the United Kingdom found Uber drivers were entitled to benefits like paid holidays and a minimum wage.
Mr Kaine said the court ruling “should inspire similar types of action” in Australia citing a two-month period at the end of last year when five delivery drivers lost their lives.
The Transport Workers Union is lobbying the government to increase support and rights for delivery drivers and gig economy workers.
Riders for Hungry Panda are classed as independent contractors, not employees, meaning they are not entitled to award wages, sick leave and other protections.
Tina Sun, the company’s Australian HR manager, appeared before a NSW parliamentary inquiry on Tuesday looking into the deaths of delivery drivers. She said she could not remember how many days it took for Hungry Panda to report Chen’s death to SafeWork NSW.
Hungry Panda had initially been scheduled to appear before the inquiry in November last year, but the company failed to turn up, with no notice. Their delivery manager, Luna Wei, later apologised, saying that some “riders came to the company without an appointment to discuss some delivery problems”, causing her to miss the inquiry.