I'm a bit confused about this 'Gig Economy' we're supposed to be living through nowadays (not the capital letters, its that important). I think it's just another way of describing contract work - short term jobs that come and go as the employer seeks fit. As an ex IT contractor when you're never sure when your contract will end and the next one will start, it's not a good place to be depending on your current financial situation.
In the good old days, contract work was always better paid than someone with full-time employed status, or permie and as we used to say, but that's not the case nowadays with more and more work taken by contractors, and some even have severe penalties if you fail to show up as in the case of delivery drivers where the one not showing up has to find (and fund) an alternative. I'm pleased to hear that the government is looking at the employment regulations to restrict these practises, but as usual they are too late for those already hit by it. Let's hope they do something about it.
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