{"id":2027,"date":"2023-11-11T08:28:56","date_gmt":"2023-11-11T07:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/11\/platform-flex-work-is-human-rights-issue\/"},"modified":"2023-11-11T09:25:04","modified_gmt":"2023-11-11T08:25:04","slug":"platform-flex-work-is-human-rights-issue","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/2023\/11\/11\/platform-flex-work-is-human-rights-issue\/","title":{"rendered":"Platform flex work is human rights issue"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vice.com\/en\/article\/g5yme4\/gig-work-wages-in-us-are-so-bad-theyre-a-human-rights-issue-un-poverty-expert-says\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bijt.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/11\/image_5e289d2d-1900-4ada-8c98-f0db23f0dfbe.jpg\" class=\"size-full\" width=\"828\" height=\"828\"\/>Vice writes<\/a> that <span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">Olivier De Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on extreme poverty,<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> has<\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"box-sizing: border-box\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ohchr.org\/en\/press-releases\/2023\/10\/amazon-doordash-and-walmart-are-trapping-workers-poverty-un-poverty-expert\" target=\"_blank\" style=\"box-sizing: border-box; background-color: transparent; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px\" rel=\"noopener\">sent letters<\/a><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"><span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/span><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">in August 2023 to Amazon, DoorDash, and Walmart, demanding they address allegations that their wages are so low that they trap workers in poverty.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\">The companies have responded with the usual &#8216;technological exceptionalism&#8217; argumentation that platform based work is fundamentally misunderstood.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Yet another<span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Lora, Georgia, serif; font-size: 18px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.3); -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration: none; display: inline !important; float: none\"> example of how digital tech in the city leads to exacerbated inequality, now in the domain of labor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); 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