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Passenger transport in Australia: Injury compensation, public policy and the health pandemic

In: A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy

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  • David Peetz

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This chapter analyses regulatory responses towards the health and safety risk - injuries or fatalities due to accidents - associated with ride-sharing in the state of Queensland, in Australia. While vehicle passenger transport is an industry which presents above-average risk, platform workers in ride-sharing in Australia are, however, not covered by injury compensation insurance as they have so far been considered as 'independent contractors'. In 2018, the Queensland government reviewed the injury compensation system and the extent to which this could be extended to workers in location-based platforms like ride-sharing. The review made the innovative proposal to redefine insurance coverage so that workers under agency arrangements would be included and to require the payment of injury compensation premiums by intermediaries or agencies, in this case by digital labour platforms in the taxi sector. After the publication of the review, the Covid-19 pandemic broke out, impeding further steps as the policy focus shifted towards handling the pandemic.

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  • David Peetz, 2021. "Passenger transport in Australia: Injury compensation, public policy and the health pandemic," Chapters, in: Jan Drahokoupil & Kurt Vandaele (ed.), A Modern Guide To Labour and the Platform Economy, chapter 20, pages 323-337, Edward Elgar Publishing.
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