Regulating gig work : decent labour standards in a world of on-demand work / Michael Rawling and Joellen Riley Munton.

Abingdon, Oxfordshire : Routledge, 2024.

1st edition

203184

Labour laws and legislation -- Australia.

Independent contractors -- Legal status, laws, etc.

Precarious employment -- Law and legislation.

Gig economy.

Self-employed -- Legal status, laws, etc.

1. Context and history

2. A global perspective

3. Overview of workers’ essential needs and forms of legal protection

4. Pay and safety

5. Procedural rights: Freedom of association and job security standards

6. Exclusion from jurisdiction as a regulatory strategy

7. Organisational forms to enhance worker control and ownership

8. Concluding thoughts.

Digital revolution demands new approaches to regulating work. The ‘Uberisation’ of work is not, in reality, a new phenomenon. It reintroduces the practices of ‘on-demand’ engagement of labour, common prior to the development of continuing employment. What is new, however, is the capacity of digital technology to engage labour in ways that avoid characterisation as employment according to the legal tests developed in the 20th century. This book tackles the challenge of ensuring that the emerging tribes of ‘gig’ workers in labour markets across the globe are afforded decent standards of work. This book discusses how to provide decent conditions and safe working standards for on-demand workers engaged through digital platforms. It interrogates the rise of gig work, and the legal strategies that might be engaged to deal with the risk that on-demand work will fall and remain outside of employment protections. It draws on observations of practices across the globe but focusses particularly on regulatory solutions developed in Australia. - Publisher's website.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

9781032251462

ix, 123 pages ; 24 cm