The Future of Work in the New Normal
Session 3: Spotlight on the GiG-Economy
Jointly organised by REFSA and FES
Full Recording
The opportunities, but also challenges arising from gig economy and crowd work on online platforms have been widely acknowledged even before the Covid-19 crisis. On demand and platform market work concerns many sectors, skills and wage levels, physical and online work. It has been shown that the gig economy and crowd-working are vulnerable to ignore decent work principles. GiG workers quite often do not benefit from social security schemes. These trends have also been aggravated and give raise to the question, if GiG economy jobs are a sustainable and resilient job model.
So who are the gig workers, and how should the social safety net for gig workers be organised? Are new forms of legislation and new statutes required with a different contribution model? Could COVID-19 trigger a general change of the previous increasing trend of gig economy employment?
Split into two sessions, Session 3(a) invites rigorous discussions on administration challenges on protecting gig workers and research findings; Session 3(b) casts a spotlight on the gig workers and medical frontliners, showcasing the challenges they face on a day to day basis. Questions explored include, but not limiting to:
Speakers for Session 3(a):
Nurhisham Hussein, Chief Strategy Office, Employees’ Provident Fund, Malaysia
Fahmi Pahimbang, Research Associate,Lembaga Informasi Perburuhan Sedane/ Sedane Labour Resource Center (LIPS), Indonesia
Tan Zhai Gen, Research Manager, Asia School of Business; former Research Associate, Khazanah Research Institute, Malaysia
Commentator for Session 3(a):
Prof. Boy Lüthje, Director of the Technology and Industry Research Centre of Institute for Public Policy IPP, South China University of Technology, Guangzhou, China
Moderator for Session 3(a):
Jayjay Denis, Policy and Communications Officer, office of the Selangor Chief Minister, Malaysia
Speakers for Session 3(b):
Arif Asyraf Ali, President, Grab Drivers Association, Malaysia
Dr. Roobini Krishnan, Medical doctor, COVID-19 frontline, Malaysia
Moderator for Session 3(b):
Dr. Kun Wardhana, Director of ICTS Sector at UNI Global Union Asia and Pacific
SUMMARY
A summary of the discussion can be found here.
PRESENTATIONS
Fahmi Pahimbang, presentation
Tan Zhai Gen, presentation
Dr. Roobini Krishnan, presentation
DOODLES
A series of doodles presentation highlighting key points are showcased below:
