Re: I'm glad...
> Enough of these gig-economy companies watering down employment rights
I don't think it started with them.
Here there are many large companies that in the 70's and 80's had like 80+% full-time employees and 20% casuals (or contractors), but in the 90's and going forwards that's been flipped around.
Mining companies, supermarket chains, retail chains, all that have been around for decades if not a century or more, have converted many employees over to casuals or contractors, some with as little as 10% full-time employees across work-forces that are nominally (since it's hard to tell since they have so many 25-hour a week casuals or contractors who are not employees therefore don't count...) tens or hundreds of thousands strong.
I think a lot of it has to do with taxation and tax laws, and things like superannuation.
The gig-economy has followed the already set precedent by these established companies. But now they can start out with a dodgy business strategy that requires this paradigm from the start.
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