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‘By Tuesday I’m sitting on $31.08’: a week in the life of a Melbourne food delivery worker – The Guardian
The boom in food delivery during the coronavirus pandemic has brought a stream of new workers into the precarious gig economy. One tells her story of a typical…
With restaurants closed and shopping hours drastically curtailed during Melbournes long coronavirus lockdown, ordering food to be delivered became a lifeline for many.
But the explosion in delivery services has highlighted the precarious nature of work in the gig economy, where workers often have no guaranteed hours, intermittent wages and worse conditions than permanent employees.
Three food delivery workers have been killed on the roads in Australia in the past month, and their families cannot…
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