Negotiating labour standards in the gig economy: Airtasker and Unions New South Wales

By K. Minter. 2017

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Subfields: Marketing, Public Administration, Sociology and Political Science

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Citations in the corpus

• Should we take the gig economy seriously? (2017, background): “Following this report, Unions NSW and Airtasker reached an agreement, announced in May 2017, to have award pay rates shown on the platform, to offer workers discounted access to insurance (at their own expense), and to introduce voluntary dispute resolution procedures facilitated by the Fair Work Co”
• Regulating work in the gig economy: What are the options? (2017, background): “In Australia, Airtasker has agreed to recommend that payments for work performed through its platform meet minimum wage benchmarks, in the face of a threat by Unions NSW to take legal action over the issue (Minter, 2017; Workplace Express, 2017a).”
• Between a rock and a hard place: Freedom, flexibility, precarity and vulnerability in the gig economy in Africa (2020, unknown): “Trade unions for remote work rarely exist globally, though there have been efforts for unionization in place-based work (Minter, 2017).”