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ArticleNew solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS2022

Laws, Policies, and Collective Agreements Protecting Low-wage and Digital Platform Workers During the COVID-19 Pandemic.

Ellen MacEachen, Angelique de Rijk, Johnny Dyreborg, Jean-Baptiste Fassier, Michael Fletcher, Pamela Hopwood, Meri Koivusalo, Shannon Majowicz, Samantha Meyer, Christian Ståhl and 1 more

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Article in New solutions : a journal of environmental and occupational health policy : NS, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

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11 authors.

Ellen MacEachen8430University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.ORCID 0000-0001-6477-7650
Angelique de Rijk5211Maastricht University, Maastricht, Limburg, The Netherlands.
Johnny Dyreborg2686National Research Centre for the Working Environment, København, Denmark.
Jean-Baptiste FassierHospices Civils de Lyon, Lyon, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
Michael Fletcher8491Victoria University of Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand.
Pamela Hopwood8430University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Meri Koivusalo7840Tampere University, Tampere, Pirkanmaa, Finland.
Shannon Majowicz8430University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Samantha Meyer8430University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.
Christian Ståhl4566Linköping University, Linkoping, Östergötland, Sweden.
Felix Welti9178University of Kassel, Kassel, Hessen, Germany.

Funding

CIHR VR5-172687
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

In the context of the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary describes and compares shifting employment and occupational health social protections of low-wage workers, including self-employed digital platform workers. Through a focus on eight advanced economy countries, this paper identifies how employment misclassification and definitions of employees were handled in law and policy. Debates about minimum wage and occupational health and safety standards as they relate to worker well-being are considered. Finally, we discuss promising changes introduced during the COVID-19 pandemic that protect the health of low-wage and self-employed workers. Overall, we describe an ongoing "haves" and a "have not" divide, with on the one extreme, traditional job arrangements with good work-and-health social protections and, on the other extreme, low-wage and self-employed digital platform workers who are mostly left out of schemes. However, during the pandemic small and often temporary gains occurred and are discussed.

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COVID-19PandemicsEmploymentHumansPublic PolicySalaries and Fringe Benefitsdigital platform gig worklow wageoccupational healthself-employmentsocial security policy

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PMID36262099
PMCPMC9582739

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