Associate Prof Work and Employment, Heriot-Watt Uni. interested in AI impact on work/workers. Migrant🇵🇹➡️🏴
Edinburgh, Scotland
Joined September 2013
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Report on Fair Gig Work in Scotland? Main findings:
➡️81% respondents reported feeling unsafe at work yet they continue working in food delivery due to financial reasons.
➡️All respondents identifying as female reported being sexually harassed while working in food delivery.
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1st paper from the PhD out now in @HRMJournal #OpenAccess We examine why & how platform workers use voice, proposing a crucial extension to the #voice discourse through our conceptualisation of the grassroots voice mechanism;@amcdonnell_hrm @RonanCarbery @SJooss Link in comments!
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The #PlatformWorkDirective is here and the clock is ticking for states to implement it. But will everything go smoothly?
In this commentary, Pedro Mendonça (@PedMendo) and I offer our view. socialeurope.eu/eu-pushes-to…
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New project: understanding the experiences of disabled and neurodivergent researchers and innovators - particularly around intellectual property rights - please RT if possible forms.office.com/pages/respo…
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New paper out! Do digital platforms really change when workers are reclassified? In our new research published in Socio-Economic Review Pedro Mendonça (@PedMendo) and I examine how #Glovo, #UberEats, and #JustEat responded during the first year of #LeyRider.
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A McDonald’s manager at a branch in Northern Ireland warned Uber Eats drivers they had a “responsibility” to learn English in their own time and claimed to have dismissed (!) a courier for being “cheeky,” a leaked recording reveals.
theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
Campos earning below the NMW said the raid had done nothing to help the workers “The Home Office is going to the wrong place, they should be raiding the companies. If the government is concerned about workers, they would be looking for a way to better regulate these companies.
Calls for investigation of Uber Eats and Deliveroo after raid on Bristol caravan camp theguardian.com/business/202…
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@PedMendo and @NadiaKougiannou explore how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources.
Read their article #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1177/095001702412…
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Pedro Mendonça and Nadia K Kougiannou explore how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources.
Read their article #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1177/095001702412…
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@PedMendo and @NadiaKougiannou explore how various groups of food delivery gig workers create and maintain distinct strategies to build collective and individual power resources.
Read their article #OpenAccess
doi.org/10.1177/095001702412…
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Our policy report written for the @BRAID_UK (2023) consultation with the UK government was published this week.
This report was written with @apudscotos and explores the double regulatory gap that platform workers face.
zenodo.org/records/13144353
Our report Fair Gig Work is mentioned by @Daily_Record article:
Workers state “They (customers) should be banned. You can report it but nothing happens.”
No voice/limited power
More details on findings we uncovered see Fair Gig Work Report in Scotland: researchportal.hw.ac.uk/file…
Our report mentioned in the article below @EdinburghLive_
"They'll be in just their boxers... They'll ask me to take the food into the kitchen for them or say inappropriate stuff"
For more details on findings we uncovered see Fair Gig Work in Scotland: researchportal.hw.ac.uk/file…
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Giant platforms like Uber, Amazon, Deliveroo, Just Eat, and others have been allowed to trample over the rights of workers and communities with impunity. There can be no more delay.
Our manifesto sets out 10 urgent priorities to fix the gig economy 🧵
workerinfoexchange.org/manif…
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While low barriers to entry mean many marginalised workers can access gig work easier than standard jobs, the low pay & precarity of the gig economy keeps these workers on the margins.
Listen to Episode 7 of A Rebel's Guide to the Gig Economy here: open.spotify.com/episode/4iG…
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Around the web:
- @Mj_vnl on Platform Work Directive theconversation.com/uber-del…
- Piece in @mdrde on Germany's platform economy and the EU Directive mdr.de/nachrichten/deutschla…
- @PedMendo & @NadiaKougiannou paper on how different groups of riders build power journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
New paper🗞️🚨‘We Are Not All the Same’ with friend/colleague @NadiaKougiannou
Looking at power building strategies of different groups of gig workers (UK native, migrant, undocumented migrant) and with varying levels of dependency towards gig work
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journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.…
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News:
🇸🇮 Glovo exits Slovenia
🏴81% of food delivery couriers feel unsafe at work
🇪🇸 @TaxiProjectEU files complaint against ridehail platforms for collusion
🇩🇰Just Eat couriers support student Gaza protests
🇬🇧Labour party confirm climb-down on single worker status
