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How to stop workers being exploited in the gig economy

  • Written by Michael Rawling, Senior Lecturer, University of Technology Sydney

Hot on the heels of the gig economy company Foodora shutting up shop in Australia amid accusations about its labour abuses, a Senate Committee report has recommended more robust laws to protect gig economy workers. But this doesn’t go far enough.

Foodora, which uses bicycle couriers to deliver food, says it has pulled out of Australia to...

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