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Delivery workers are now essential. They deserve the rights of other employees

  • Written by: Tyler Riordan, PhD Candidate, The University of Queensland
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Along with home delivery of groceries, pharmaceuticals and alcohol, demand for food delivery is booming.

Services such as Uber Eats and Deliveroo have become essential to cafes and restaurants that can now only sell takeaway food.

It is good news for the likes of Uber, whose stock price has risen since it announced a ten-fold increase in the...

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