WHEN Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad announced last year that the government intended to draft a new law on the gig economy to protect gig workers (called “giggers”) from exploitation by “platform companies”, many of my friends believed it would not be available anytime soon. He told me last week that he was deterred rather than encouraged to remain active in the gig economy. But the gig economy law mentioned by the prime minister has a wider objective — i.e. It stated the proof that existing legislation cannot meet all the needs of the gig economy is the “overflow in case law worldwide, reclassifying the working relationship between the worker and the company”. The Commission concluded that it is vital to develop a legal framework that’s able “to capture the opportunities that the gig economy has to offer”.

Source: New Strait Times February 04, 2020 15:56 UTC