Not an employee but protected. Fair working conditions for food delivery workers

1 October 2026

In True to The Land. A History of food in Australia I wrote of the gig economy home delivery workers:

Whether people working in the gig economy are employees or independent contractors is fundamental to determining their rights and obligations across a number of areas of their employment, including tax, superannuation and the conditions under which they can be dismissed.

From August 24th, 2026, as a result of negotiations before the Fair Work Commission between the Transport Workers Union and two food delivery services – Uber Eats and Door Dash – workers in the gig economy further gains were made for food delivery drivers

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Paul van Reyk
My first essay on food was in Year 10 - people seemed to like it. It took me 56 years to come back to it, so I have a lot of catching up to do. My focus is on Anglo-Saxon settler culinary ways in Australia, roughly from the first days of colonisation to the 1960s - 1970s. I particularly write about stuff that has not been written about before but is very much a part of the Anglo-Saxon Australian table. I hope you enjoy reading as much as I do writing.