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Behind the scenes a new ap, Young Ones is driving gig economy work in some retail sites this season; the ap, allows freelancers to be booked for retail shifts at short notice (and includes a review function whereby employers rate their work, thereby impacting on future hiring opportunities).
As Sarah O'Connor (FT) notes the problem is the ratings judgement cannot be appealed & of course it keeps workers outside employment protections (again).
Look exploitative to me!
⧖ @ChrisMayLA6 Queuing up outside the dock gates to be picked all over again, but just in shiny new clothes. It’s astonishing how capitalists can keep on reinventing ways to exploit.
Yes, its another sign that capitalism (in the UK) had landed back in the C19th
@ChrisMayLA6 May the companies that use this app only ever get these guys to show up:
@ChrisMayLA6 like much in the capitalist system, exploitative systems are what keeps the little man struggling, and therefore subject and subservient.
@ChrisMayLA6 yes. A modern day employment blacklist.
yeah what it needs is the shadow app, where employers are rated by the staff......
(
) would love to see that 