Minister for Better Regulation and Innovation, Minister for Transport and Roads
The NSW Government is set to introduce new laws to improve safety outcomes in the gig economy and food delivery industry.
Minister for Better Regulation Kevin Anderson said the new measures include ensuring riders are provided with personal protective equipment by food delivery platforms, the implementation of compulsory induction training and a new penalty system for riders to crackdown on repeated unsafe practices.
“These laws have come in the wake of a recent education and safety blitz that found continued widespread non-compliance with the state’s road and work health and safety laws,” Mr Anderson said.
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Kaine said there was no mention of addressing time pressure in the action planâs list of âactionsâ, despite it being cited as a leading cause of deaths and injuries only a few pages earlier in the document.
He said a section on how the companiesâ algorithms forced workers to ârushâ had been removed at the request of the delivery companies.
âWhat has been produced is nothing more than a catalogue of inadequate, piecemeal actions put forward by food delivery companies that will do nothing to tackle the dangerous conditions for riders,â he said.
âThe taskforce has proven to be an exercise in futility ⦠The sad reality is that more lives will be lost because the NSW government has caved to the demands of tech bullies like Uber and refused to provide any enforceable actions.â