New South Wales needs to introduce a portable entitlement scheme and establish a tribunal to deal with pay and conditions for gig economy workers, or risk falling behind other states in protecting ride share and delivery drivers, a parliamentary inquiry has found.
In a report handed down on Wednesday morning, the future of work inquiry found the state needed to commit to greater protections for gig economy workers because the failure to provide them with a minimum wage, paid leave and other basic entitlements was increasing inequality across the state.
