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#HereToDeliver: Valuing food delivery workers in the future

By Cristina Inversi, Aude Cefaliello and Tony Dundon Filed Under: Digital Futures, Growth and Inclusion, Health and Social Care Posted: June 25, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought to the fore a new cadre of valued workers. And it’s not the corporate CEO or senior business leader but the delivery workers that are helping cafes and restaurants stay open (in some form) during lockdown. Cristina Inversi, Aude Cefaliello and Tony Dundon of the Work and Equalities Institute (WEI) […]

Tagged With: COVID-19, digital, Digital Futures, digital labour, digital platform, employment, Future of work, gig economy, health and safety, HSE, labour market, OHS, OSH, Pandemic, productivity, technology, trade unions, WEI, work, work & pensions

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Internet provides new threat to employment rights

Debra HowcroftBirgitta Bergvall-Kareborn By Debra Howcroft and Birgitta Bergvall-Kareborn Filed Under: Featured Posted: December 9, 2014

Yesterday shoppers are estimated to have spent almost £500,000 every minute buying Christmas presents online, on what has been dubbed ‘Manic Monday’. Internet technologies are challenging not just commerce, but also employment practices. Amazon provides a ‘crowd employment platform’ that disrupts traditional employer-worker relationships and creates a new class of freelance worker without employment rights, […]

Tagged With: Amazon, crowdsourcing, decency, digital labour, digital platform, fairness, Mechanical Turk, WEI, work. employment

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