Menulog, Australia’s second-largest food ordering and delivery platform, has declared it will break with the standard “gig platform” business model and engage some of its couriers as employees, not independent contractors.
“We owe it to our couriers,” Menulog’s managing director Morten Belling told the Senate Select Committee inquiry into job security this week. The inquiry is investigating the scope of insecure or precarious employment in Australia.
The Transport Workers’ Union says Menulog’s move is a “watershed moment for the gig economy”. By committing to pay couriers a minimum wage and superannuation, it is going further than its competitors such as UberEats and Deliveroo.
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Virgin Australia Group has announced fast-tracked plans to acquire new aircraft, create more frontline jobs and grow its network to further support domestic tourism.
The recovery efforts include the reintroduction of 10 additional Boeing 737-800 aircraft and the planned return of more than 80 per cent of the airline’s pre-pandemic domestic capacity by mid-June.
Network operational changes will also allow the airline to redeploy Boeing 737 aircraft to other parts of its network over the coming months.
After a year of rolling state-based restrictions, Virgin said pent-up travel demand is supporting the launch of several new and expanded services and frequencies on key leisure and business routes.
Unions have congratulated food delivery platform Menulog after it announced it will consider its contracted riders as full employees in a Sydney trial.
A union has claimed that food delivery drivers earn just $10.42 an hour.
News by Anton Nilsson and Jade Gailberger 12th Apr 2021 3:37 PM Food delivery jobs that pay as little as $10.42 an hour risk undermining the broader transport industry and put Australia in a state of national emergency , a union has warned. The Transport Workers Union has waged a campaign for regulation of the gig economy in NSW and was invited on Monday to give evidence to a federal select committee into job security. National secretary Michael Kaine warned in his opening statement the conditions under which many food delivery riders work could be replicated in the broader transport sector if legislators didn t intervene.
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