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Sezen Bakan

Food delivery drivers are overworked and underpaid: Here’s how to help

Gig workers are doing it tough, but there are some ways customers could help. Photo: AAP

Nabin Adhikari, 27, turned his side hustle as a delivery driver into a full-time job to make ends meet when the pandemic hit just after he’d moved to Canberra in 2020.

But he’s since found even when he works up to 85 hours a week, his earnings still aren’t equivalent to Australia’s minimum wage.

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