"Regulation of sharing economy urged to prevent exploitation", 21 August 2017

Greater regulation of the short-term online jobs market is needed to prevent exploitation of vulnerable workers, leading workplace experts have warned.

Andrew Stewart, a professor of law at the University of Adelaide and Jim Stanford, an economist from the Centre for Future Work at the Australia Institute have presented five possible options to strengthen regulation of what is known as "gig work". Gig work includes short job contracts obtained through online platforms including Uber and Airtasker...The options include expanding the reach of existing laws to apply to gig workers. Definitions of employment could be also be expanded to include gig work...