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Around the web: - Matthieu Vicente on Platform Work Directive theconversation.com/uber-deliveroo… - Piece in mdrde on Germany's platform economy and the EU Directive mdr.de/nachrichten/de… - Pedro Mendonça & @NadiaKougiannou paper on how different groups of riders build power journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/09…

🔊🔊🔊 While low barriers to entry mean many marginalised workers can access gig work easier than standard jobs, the low pay & precarity of the gig economy keeps these workers on the margins. Listen to Episode 7 of A Rebel's Guide to the Gig Economy here: open.spotify.com/episode/4iGlrN…

Giant platforms like Uber, Amazon, Deliveroo, Just Eat, and others have been allowed to trample over the rights of workers and communities with impunity. There can be no more delay. Our manifesto sets out 10 urgent priorities to fix the gig economy 🧵 workerinfoexchange.org/manifesto

Our report mentioned in the article below Edinburgh Live "They'll be in just their boxers... They'll ask me to take the food into the kitchen for them or say inappropriate stuff" For more details on findings we uncovered see Fair Gig Work in Scotland: researchportal.hw.ac.uk/files/12654247…

Our report Fair Gig Work is mentioned by The Daily Record article: Workers state “They (customers) should be banned. You can report it but nothing happens.” No voice/limited power More details on findings we uncovered see Fair Gig Work Report in Scotland: researchportal.hw.ac.uk/files/12654247…

Our policy report written for the @BRAID_UK (2023) consultation with the UK government was published this week. This report was written with Cailean Gallagher and explores the double regulatory gap that platform workers face. zenodo.org/records/131443…

Pedro Mendonça and @NadiaKougiannou explore how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources. Read their article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Pedro Mendonça and Nadia K Kougiannou explore how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources. Read their article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Pedro Mendonça and @NadiaKougiannou explore how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources. Read their article #OpenAccess doi.org/10.1177/095001…

Campos earning below the NMW said the raid had done nothing to help the workers “The Home Office is going to the wrong place, they should be raiding the companies. If the government is concerned about workers, they would be looking for a way to better regulate these companies.

A McDonald’s manager at a branch in Northern Ireland warned Uber Eats drivers they had a “responsibility” to learn English in their own time and claimed to have dismissed (!) a courier for being “cheeky,” a leaked recording reveals. theguardian.com/uk-news/2024/o…

New paper out! Do digital platforms really change when workers are reclassified? In our new research published in Socio-Economic Review Pedro Mendonça (Pedro Mendonça) and I examine how #Glovo, #UberEats, and #JustEat responded during the first year of #LeyRider. (link at the bottom)

New project: understanding the experiences of disabled and neurodivergent researchers and innovators - particularly around intellectual property rights - please RT if possible forms.office.com/pages/response…

The #PlatformWorkDirective is here and the clock is ticking for states to implement it. But will everything go smoothly? In this commentary, Pedro Mendonça (Pedro Mendonça) and I offer our view. socialeurope.eu/eu-pushes-to-r…

1st paper from the PhD out now in Human Resource Management Journal #OpenAccess We examine why & how platform workers use voice, proposing a crucial extension to the #voice discourse through our conceptualisation of the grassroots voice mechanism;Anthony McDonnell Ronan Carbery Stefan Jooss Link in comments!