[Brad Lockyer]

Proposed changes to workplace rules in Australia could result in higher prices for takeaway food delivery and ride-sharing services, according to Employment and Workplace Relations Minister Tony Burke.

The reforms would grant the Fair Work Commission the authority to establish minimum standards, including pay and safety conditions, for gig workers on digital platforms such as UberEats, AirTasker and DoorDash.

Mr. Burke acknowledged that consumers may bear some of the cost pass-through from these changes, but argued the change is crucial to ensure gig workers receive fair compensation and comparable conditions to permanent employees.

To determine their eligibility for increased protections, these individuals would need to satisfy a new test proposed by the government.

While the potential increase in prices for takeaway delivery and ride-sharing services may affect consumers, the government believes that it is a small price to pay to ensure fair treatment for gig workers.

Do you think these changes are fair?

[Cosmo]

This is great news for Australia! Individual cooked food deliveries encompass much of what is going wrong with Australia at the moment. We have a labour shortage so we need to bring in workers from overseas but we have tens of thousands of mainly young people engaging in one of the most inefficient and indulgent jobs imaginable. What are these people going to do for work when they grow up? We have reducing efficiency in Australia and these people are making a large contribution. These deliveries involve thousands of polluting two stroke engined scooters spewing out tons of filthy oil laden fumes in our cities and suburbs and of course we regularly hear about the road accidents they’re involved in. Add this cohort to the non productive gambling and gaming and professional sports people, the massive expenditure on gyms, many of which go bust before their much hyped memberships have expired, indulgent nail bars, beauty salons and botox bars and you have a large part of the answer as to why so many mainly younger people have no money today and besides farming and foreign owned mining we produce next to nothing.

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