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If you catch COVID-19 at work in Australia, you do have rights to leave and compensation, depending on your employment status
Strip away the sexy marketing and what you have is just another digital platform shifting legal responsibilities and risks.
As the gig economy and precarious work become more prevalent, there’s a growing need for some form of universal income support to help these workers.
Gig work is entering almost every industry and changing the relationship between workers, employers, service providers and customers. But gig workers face new and unique challenges.
Taxi drivers and Uber drivers perform the same work, but Uber’s categorization as a tech company has contributed to the historical stigma against taxi drivers.
A rise in contract and gig work in professional and creative fields is affecting steady employment. Research shows that to maintain a career in these fields, a worker needs to consider family.
The British Supreme Court ruling in favour of Uber drivers offers some hope that gig workers, many of them immigrants, might finally be given basic rights. But there’s still lots of work to do.
Freelancers who have lost work during the COVID-19 crisis can take steps to ensure they have a successful long-term career in the post-pandemic period.
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.
The debate over how to classify gig workers pits flexibility against the higher incomes and benefits that come with being classified as an employee.
Workers say they love the freedom of platforms like Uber and TaskRabbit but find it hard to earn a livable wage. Cooperatives that give worker-owners a voice in how they are run offer a solution.
With the recession exposing more workers to the vagaries of gig work, it’s more urgent than ever to close the legal loopholes that deny workers employment rights.
Delivery workers and others who ensure most people don’t have to go outside for essential goods are creating what economic theorists call an uncompensated ‘positive externality.’
Food delivery workers are now essential workers. But they’re still not treated as employees.
A scholar of the American safety net explains how, through her own brother, she’s getting a personal window into what it means to face COVID-19 as a worker in the gig economy.
If government and business collaborate with workers, a scholar of labor relations writes, current economic problems could get less severe, the recovery smoother and lasting prosperity more likely.
We need to see uberisation in the context of all forms of precarious and insecure work becoming more acceptable.
Three federal public policy changes impacting employed and contingent workers could significantly buffer anticipated impacts of automation, Artificial Intelligence and a changing economy.
A growing number of jobs are becoming less stable, with fewer benefits and stagnating wages. This is taking a significant toll on the psychological health of workers.
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Professor Emeritus, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer - Management and Organisations, UWA Business School, The University of Western Australia
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Senior Lecturer and DECRA Fellow, University of Sydney
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Senior lecturer, The University of Western Australia
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Associate professor, Human Resources & Management, McMaster University
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Assistant Professor of Business Administration, University of Manitoba
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Associate Professor of HR and Management, McMaster University
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Canada Excellence Research Chair in Migration and Integration, Toronto Metropolitan University
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Michael and Susan Jandernoa Professor of Management and Organizations, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Business & Society, Simon Fraser University
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PhD candidate, Industrial Relations and Human Resources, University of Toronto
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Professor of Sociology, Boston College
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Associate Professor, Entrepreneurship and Organization, L’Université d’Ottawa/University of Ottawa
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Assistant Professor, Organizational Behaviour, University of The Fraser Valley
