The Victorian Premier’s Department invited us to respond to the Victorian report on the gig economy. Silly them!
The gig economy report is a con. It’s a Trojan Horse designed to unleash the dogs of (legal) war against self-employed people in Victoria and across Australia. We expressed our massive opposition to this when the report was released in July this year and Premier Andrews stated his keen support to implement the report’s recommendations.
We vehemently oppose the recommendations in the report, particularly recommendation number 6 to ‘ditch’ common law as the definer of self-employment and replace it with some unknown new definition.Quite clearly we see the Victorian government’s moves as a massive threat to the more than 540,000 self-employed people in Victoria. On top of the discrimination and economic devastation imposed on ‘us’ by the Andrews Labor government’s Covid-19 incompetence, it seems Victorian Labor has a death desire for self-employed people. It’s a staggering situation.
We find that there is no connection between the research contained in the report and its recommendation. Consequently, we consider the report to be a ‘con job’ seeking to create a political and public relations smokescreen to achieve a predetermined agenda—namely, the effective outlawing of self-employment in Victoria.
We advise that to defend the right of our members and all Victorians to be self-employed we will do everything we can to oppose any implementation of the report’s recommendations. The recommendations are shameful.
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