Workplace relations minister says the minimal impact on consumers is a small price to pay for improving rider safety
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The price of home-delivered food and ride sharing may have to go up as a “modest pass-through” to consumers to pay for minimum conditions in the gig economy, Tony Burke has said.
Burke, the workplace relations minister, argued at the National Press Club on Thursday that “underpaying” workers is cheaper for consumers but a “tiny bit extra” is a small price to pay for conditions that improve rider safety.
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