31 January 2018
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has warned dodgy operators of food delivery services that they are in the Australian union movement’s sights as a survey of bike couriers reveals that three quarters of them are paid less than the legal minimum wage.
The survey of bicycle couriers, conducted by the Transport Workers Union, found that 75 percent of respondents were paid below the legal minimum for bike couriers, which under the Road Transport and Distribution Award is $24.21 per hour for casuals, not including allowances, superannuation or penalty rates.
More than half of the 160 riders surveyed knew someone who had been injured while doing bike deliveries, or had themselves been injured.
More than quarter of respondents worked full time hours or greater, and 70 percent said they should be entitled to sick leave.
Quotes attributable to Sally McManus, ACTU Secretary:
Transport Workers Union Survey Results
www.twu.com.au/on-demand-workers-survey
On Demand Workers Australia Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ondemandworkersaustralia/
The ACTU NETWORK
ACTU secretary Sally McManus has warned dodgy operators of food delivery services that they are in the Australian union movement’s sights as a survey of bike couriers reveals that three quarters of them are paid less than the legal minimum wage.
The survey of bicycle couriers, conducted by the Transport Workers Union, found that 75 percent of respondents were paid below the legal minimum for bike couriers, which under the Road Transport and Distribution Award is $24.21 per hour for casuals, not including allowances, superannuation or penalty rates.
More than half of the 160 riders surveyed knew someone who had been injured while doing bike deliveries, or had themselves been injured.
More than quarter of respondents worked full time hours or greater, and 70 percent said they should be entitled to sick leave.
Quotes attributable to Sally McManus, ACTU Secretary:
- “Poverty is not an innovation. The callous and regressive actions of companies like Uber Eats, Deliveroo and Foodora, who illegitimately classify bike couriers as independent contractors, belong in the Victorian age. They have no place in Australia in 2018.”
- “The rules that are supposed to protect people from being exploited and underpaid at work are broken. They have failed to protect bicycle couriers, who ride in dangerous conditions, for illegally low wages, without any protection against injury or illness.”
- “Our lawmakers must change the rules that govern our lives at work – it is clear that they are not adequate. If the Turnbull government does not legislate to ensure that delivery riders – and all working Australians –have safe, secure jobs they will be voted out and replaced with a government that will.
- “I encourage anyone who has been treated in this manner to contact the Transport Workers Union for a confidential discussion.”
Transport Workers Union Survey Results
www.twu.com.au/on-demand-workers-survey
On Demand Workers Australia Facebook
https://www.facebook.com/ondemandworkersaustralia/
The ACTU NETWORK
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