cross-posted from: https://sh.itjust.works/post/7383011
“If platform companies are making a profit that relies on paying workers less, then arguably the difference could come out of the companies’ pockets, not the consumer’s.” “66% of full-time gig economy workers are earning below the minimum wage.”
This is the best summary I could come up with:
Uber supports the Fair Work Commission setting minimum standards but made the claim about price rises in its submission to a Senate inquiry into the legislation, to demonstrate what it said were “significant concerns” about comparing pay and conditions of traditional employees when setting standards for gig workers.
Fiona Macdonald, an expert in industrial relations at the Australia Institute, said the figures put forward by Uber showed just how much workers were being underpaid.
The union’s national assistant secretary, Nick McIntosh, said it meant any gig worker should be able to have minimum standards.
In its submission, the company argued that the government’s bill, when considering standards that should apply to gig workers, made numerous references to employees’ pay and conditions that could influence the commission to “mirror” gig worker minimum standards on employee pay and conditions.
“The bill leaves open questions around what standards the FWC may or may not apply to gig workers – for example, penalty rates.
“There are exaggerated and embellished claims of doom if loopholes that prevent people from being paid properly are closed off,” Bornstein said.
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