Migration Council horror! NSW to regulate gig economy

Wednesday, 27 June 2018

Migration Council panic! Via Domainfax:

A future Labor government would introduce state laws to regulate the pay and conditions of food delivery riders and other online platform workers.

The Transport Workers Union will put a motion to this weekend’s state Labor Party conference in Sydney for Chapter 6 of the NSW Industrial Relations Act to be amended to protect bicycle riders who deliver food and owner drivers who carry bread, milk and cream. The motion has been approved at ALP committee level which means it is likely to be supported.

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David Llewellyn-Smith is Chief Strategist at the MB Fund and MB Super. David is the founding publisher and editor of MacroBusiness and was the founding publisher and global economy editor of The Diplomat, the Asia Pacific’s leading geo-politics and economics portal. He is also a former gold trader and economic commentator at The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, the ABC and Business Spectator. He is the co-author of The Great Crash of 2008 with Ross Garnaut and was the editor of the second Garnaut Climate Change Review.