185. WHAT'S THE GIG IDEA?: fair work in the platform economy

Reasons Revisited

Geoff Lloyd

Society & Culture, Government, News, Politics

4.8 • 2.6K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2021

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Hello! In February the Supreme Court ruled against Uber in a major case on the rights of its drivers. Could it prompt a shift in working conditions in the gig economy? Former Uber driver and co-claimant in the recent case James Farrar tells us about his legal victory, Kelle Howson from Fairwork talks about what it could mean more widely, then Martin Buttle from ShareAction talks us through the investor response to Deliveroo’s recent IPO.

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0:00.0	This is reasons to be cheerful with Edmila Band and Jeff Lyd.
0:12.1	Well, hello! Happy Good Friday!
0:16.2	Happy Good Friday and happy Easter Monday to our listeners, or perhaps these listeners who
0:22.0	fall behind in which case happy Christmas.
0:25.1	Oh yeah, that's a good point.
0:26.2	Russia Shana.
0:27.6	Exactly.
0:28.3	Um, well look, I, I was thinking about this, I think it's the first time we've recorded
0:33.3	on Good Friday.
0:34.3	Do you think we should be getting double bubble for this?
0:36.3	Er, but no, I was thinking I should sort of, you know, deliver you an Easter egg or something.
0:41.3	I haven't had so much as a mini egg so far this year.
0:44.4	Sunday is the day, isn't it?
0:45.4	Do you go big on eggs in your house?
0:47.6	For the children, yeah.
0:48.6	What's your view of the hot cross buns?
0:50.4	I'd rather pay two a penny than one a penny.
0:52.2	What does that mean?
0:53.2	Well, that song, one a penny, two a penny hot cross buns.
0:56.4	Over my head.
0:57.4	I can't, you can't even blame that on it being the 90s ed.
0:59.8	I think it's like a traditional song from Ye Oldie Days.
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