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Redefining workers in the platform economy: lessons from the Foodora bunfight

  • Written by Alex Veen, Lecturer (Academic Fellow) in Work and Organisational Studies, University of Sydney
Redefining workers in the platform economy: lessons from the Foodora bunfightFoodora was struggling in Australia even before regulators took an interest in its cost-minimisation measures.ArliftAtoz2205 / Shutterstock.com

Had Foodora’s Australian operations not already gone into voluntary administration, the November 16 decision of the Fair Work Commission might well have finished the food-delivery company off.

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