Food delivery apps charge significant fees for orders, meaning restaurants already challenged by the pandemic can be squeezed into negative margins to access customers. Will cutting fees help?
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Proposition 22 keeps workers for app-based companies like Uber and Lyft classified as independent contractors, but it also reveals deeper problems with contemporary labour markets.
An Ontario labour board decision to allow Foodora workers to unionize appears to have set an important precedent. But unionizing workers in the gig economy will continue to be an uphill battle.
The tensions between platforms and their workers can be better understood by studying the mutual expectations of both parties.
It is the Australian Tax Office, not the Fair Work Commission, making the big waves with the Foodora case and the future of the gig economy.
That the Fair Work Ombudsman brought a case against Foodora suggests its workers are most likely to be classified as employees. This could dissuade other platforms from offering similar benefits.
Could an employer or platform claim copyright in a chat group? We’d first have to accept that conversations in a chat group are protected by copyright.
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Lecturer, Centre for Work + Wellbeing, Edith Cowan University
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Professor and Associate Dean (Research) The University of Sydney Law School, University of Sydney
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Professor, Director & former Dean, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Etudiante PhD, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Associate Professor, Food Economics, University of Guelph
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Assistant Professor, Labour studies, Brock University
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Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
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Post-Doctoral Visitor, Department of Politics, York University, Canada
