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A new study finds that the quality-of-life policing is used by powerful institutions and privileged people to keep those with less privilege, including people of color, from accessing resources like the internet.
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 ...
An Australian portable entitlement scheme is now desperately needed and would be practical to introduce if based on proven models, according to a new...