‘Jobbing’ their way through unemployment apocalypse
The gig economy’s ‘independent contractors’ are left high and dry during the lockdown, but local start-ups show how it can be done
21 May 2020 - 05:00
A scathing local report by labour outfit Fairwork has admonished Uber Eats, Bolt, Mr D and OrderIn, saying the gig-economy firms have failed to take responsibility for workers’ lost wages during the Covid-19 lockdown.
Fairwork, a collaboration between the universities of Cape Town, Oxford, Manchester and others, says cleaning app SweepSouth and tech start-up M4Jam are the only SA gig-economy firms to have offered some compensation for the loss of pay experienced by workers...
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