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Did somebody say workers' rights? Three big questions about Menulog's employment plan

  • Written by Tom Barratt, Lecturer, Centre for Work + Wellbeing, Edith Cowan University

Menulog, Australia’s second-largest food ordering and delivery platform, has declared it will break with the standard “gig platform” business model and engage some of its couriers as employees, not independent contractors.

“We owe it to our couriers,” Menulog’s managing director Morten Belling told the Senate...

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