Gig Work: Grip on Pay - March 25, 2022

2:00PM - 2:05PM

Welcome

Paulien Osse, Director of WageIndicator Foundation, welcoming all attendants and explaining the rules of engagement.

2:05PM - 2:10PM

VIDEO ABOUT PAY LEVELS IN THE GIG ECONOMY

2:10PM - 2:25PM

Keynote speech

Uma Rani is a Senior Economist at the Research Department, International Labour Organization (ILO) in Geneva. Prior to joining the ILO she worked as an Associate Professor at Gujarat Institute of Development Research, Ahmedabad, India. Her main research interest lies in development economics, the informal sector, minimum wages, poverty, inequality, social policies and gender.

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2:25PM - 3:10PM

Panel Discussion

algorithms, transparency and Gender Pay Gap

Rupa Korde

Francisca Pereyra

Ariela Micha

Valeria Pulignano

Anna Ginès Fabrellas

3:10PM - 3:20PM

Statement on Pay Transparency

Alessio Bertolini is a researcher at the Fairwork Foundation. With a background in economics and policy studies, his area of expertise involves employment and welfare rights for non-standard workers from a comparative European perspective. For the Fairwork project, Alessio conducts fieldwork into working conditions at digital platforms in the UK and Germany, and is involved with scoring and ranking them.

When does a platform company get an OK score on pay? What should be the principles?

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3:20PM - 3:35PM

Elevator Pitches

Many organisations worldwide are busy with projects and tools to give gig workers more grip on their pay. Initiatives that give gig workers faster access to their pay, that provide transparency towards algorithms and payment schemes and workers that unite in a cooperative to have more grip on their pay. For this part of the program, we have invited several best practises worldwide to present their case. After their pitches, attendees can decide which breakout room to join for a deep dive into the best practices.

TEMPER - ON THEIR WAY TO A LIVING TARIFF

Niels Arntz - Co-Founder Temper

Temper is a Dutch digital bulletin board for day jobs like catering, logistics and retail. Temper wants to work with WageIndicator Foundation and representatives of Temper FreeFlexers and take a critical look at income control for independent platform workers in the Netherlands on a structural basis. We discussed living wages: what is a fair and livable hourly rate for freelance platform workers? The average hourly rate on Temper is currently over 21 euros. WageIndicator's developed a Minimum Living Tariff. For The Netherlands the calculation results in a  minimum living hourly rate of between 18 and 20 euros, which includes  pension, illness and the risk of no work. As a first step and result of the collaboration, Temper increases the minimum hourly rate on the platform from 14 to 15 euros. We believe that this move and a healthy dialogue on minimum rates is important in general. (Moderator Paulien Osse)

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Presentation: Minimum Living Tariff - WageIndicator

Payday

Mike Samallo - Sales Manager Payday, ABN AMRO Bank

Payday is a B2B2C digital touchpoint for gigworkers to best manage their earnings and finances. By giving access to earnings in seconds after a gig is completed, gigworkers are in full control of their paydays. Besides instant payment from the Payday Wallet, Payday provides the gigworkers with insights about their income over specific periods of the year. Current pilots have proven to increase the platforms' NPS, worker engagement and satisfaction. (Moderator Daniela Ceccon)

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SEWA

Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur - Senior Coordinator, SEWA Cooperative Federation

Salonie Muralidhara Hiriyur works as senior coordinator at SEWA Cooperative Federation and is a fellow at the Institute for the Cooperative Digital Economy (ICDE, The New School). Salonie has been working on developing ways to ensure the viability and sustainability of informal women workers and their cooperatives. She is also working on issues of meaningful digital inclusion, including through platform cooperatives. (Moderator Rupa Korde)

Unveel.io

Alok Alström - CEO, AppJobs

Unveel by Appjobs is a B2B solution opening access to income and work history data of millions of gig workers worldwide. They have built a secure gig platform infrastructure to allow seamless access to financial and employment data across 150+ countries. Their mission is to enable a new line of products and services, lowering fees for gig workers, thus increasing their grip on pay. (Moderator Valeria Tonella)

Asosiasi Driver Online (ADO) Indonesia

Taha Syafaril A - Head of Asosiasi Driver Online
Suci Lestari Yuana - Lecturer at Universitas Gadjah Mada

Asosiasi Driver Online is one of the biggest online taxi driver-base organisations in Indonesia. The organisation program is motivated by the asymmetrical position between the online taxi driver and the online taxi company. The main activity is to advocate driver's rights to the policymakers and to monitor the implementation of online taxi regulations. (Moderator Martijn Arets)

Glovo Côte D'Ivoire

Serge Gnamkey

How do you realize a grip on pay in countries with other institutional contexts? In this session Serge Gnamkey, in charge of Glovo’s expansion in Côte D’Ivoire where +1.000 independent couriers use the platform, will give you more insights on how he manages to give workers grip on pay in his region. He will talk about high level challenges like 'how to provide a living wage' to very important practical challenges: ‘how to give workers their money without bank accounts’. (Moderator Fiona Dragstra)

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3:35PM - 4:00PM

Parallel Break-Out Rooms to discuss your favorite Elevator pitch

4:00PM - 4:10PM

Closing

Martin Kahanec, Professor of Public Policy at the Central European University in Vienna, and Founder and Scientific Director of the Central European Labour Studies Institute in Bratislava

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