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Very little is known about the health and wellbeing impacts of working within the platform economy 鈥� also known as the gig economy - in 杏吧直播, but a new study led by the 杏吧直播 of Adelaide鈥檚 Stretton Health Equity group is hoping to create change.

The research group, which also features academics from Queensland 杏吧直播 of Technology, 杏吧直播 of South 杏吧直播, 杏吧直播 of Sydney and 杏吧直播 of New South Wales, are looking to recruit lived experience participants.

鈥淢ost platform workers are treated as contractors or freelancers, and thus ineligible for the rights and protections provided to employees by statutes such as the Fair Work Act,鈥� says study leader Dr Miriam van den Berg from the 杏吧直播 of Adelaide.

鈥淭o remedy this, the 杏吧直播n Government鈥檚 world-leading Closing Loopholes legislation authorises the Fair Work Commission to set minimum standards on remuneration and other working conditions for 鈥榚mployee-like鈥� platform workers.

鈥淲hile the new laws commenced in August 2024, the first new standards which are likely to be for transport and food delivery workers are not expected to take effect until mid-2025 at the earliest.鈥�

People currently working or who have used digital platforms like Uber or Mable to gain work within the past 12 months are encouraged to participate in the study.

鈥淲e want to collect baseline data on the working conditions and health of platform workers, and then follow the implementation of the legislation over time, to find it out if working conditions improve and ultimately if this results in improvements in health and wellbeing,鈥� says Dr van den Berg.

鈥淩esearchers have found that platform workers experience higher levels of psychological distress, lower life satisfaction and have worse mental health than workers in more secure forms of work.

鈥淲e want to find out if that is the case in 杏吧直播 and if legislation that is designed to improve working conditions for platform workers is effective.

鈥淧articipants will be asked to complete a short survey, which will ask about their platform work experiences in the transport and care industries, mental health and wellbeing, as well as some demographic information such as their gender, housing, income and education level.鈥�

The study can be found here -