Prof. Guy Mondelek, Walt’s emissaries, recently filed a class action lawsuit against the company, in which they demanded compensation of tens of millions of shekels for social rights they did not receive (the appeal they filed at Walt will be heard at the National Labor Court). Also in a survey conducted about a year ago by the Berel Katznelson Foundation, more than half of them would like to do the same job, only as employees. Gig-economy, is this a failed concept?
“Unfortunately, not sure. I want to tell you that wherever there is a haltura economy, the workers receive rights and recognition as workers, but this is not true. It is true that in most of the rulings given around the world in the halitura workers’ questions, the decision was in favor of the workers. (In Italy, Spain and Great Britain couriers and drivers won lawsuits , but in several countries in the USA, China, India and Brazil, these are workers without rights or with partial rights, the “f)”.
You claim – Walt couriers and Uber drivers, this is not the real story. What is the real story?
“The real story is people who provide services through platforms like Faber (an arena that matches freelancers from all over the world with clients, the F), and those who work part-time, when there is no employer who is responsible for them, there is no routine and there is no financial security. Many of us will work this way in the future. Apparently it’s romantic: I’m sitting in my house in the Galilee, enjoying electricity from solar energy and working with clients around the world. What a stunning story. But the more common story empirically, about people who build all kinds of jobs for themselves, patchwork upon patchwork. What will happen on the day they start? Or on the day when a plague or war will break out, God forbid? If it is a prolonged period, on this day the downward spiral begins. They lose it.
“The problems of the Haltura economy are not questions about hunger. They are about food insecurity. Not about a lack of a roof over a roof, but about insecurity in housing. Not about an immediate shortage, but about social security – sick days, vacation and adequate pension savings. If also in the economy The solution is that every employee will have the security that just before he goes down the spiral there will be someone to lend a hand, so we can live with that as well.”
More about the future labor market, professions that will disappear and professions that will be created and whether we are marching towards a world without work – listen to the conversation with Prof. Guy Mondelek in this week’s “Globes Submarine” episode.