Uber warning of 85% meal hikes under Labor’s new laws shows how underpaid gig workers are, experts say

If proposed workplace overhaul leads to higher delivery prices, it reflects ‘current below-acceptable levels of pay’, say experts

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Uber’s warning that Australians may pay up to 85% more to have a meal delivered if gig economy workers are treated as employees under proposed workplace legislation is an admission that delivery rider workers are being woefully underpaid, experts have said.

Uber supports the Fair Work Commission setting minimum standards, but made the claim about price rises in its submission to a Senate inquiry into the legislation, to demonstrate what it said were “significant concerns” about comparing pay and conditions of traditional employees when setting standards for gig workers.

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