WageIndicator's 4th gig webinar: Grip on Pay.
There are 4 good reasons why you should take part in the Gig Work: Grip on Pay event:
- A panel of high-level speakers: International Labor Organization, FairWork Foundation, SEWA Cooperative Federation, and many others.
- A unique showcase of the implementation of a Minimum Living Tariff in the gig economy, developed by WageIndicator
- The most actual topics around payment in the world of platforms: algorithms and data transparency, real pay and minimum wages, living hourly rates for freelancers, the gender pay gap, fair pay principles.
- A stimulating session of pitches & breakout rooms to learn more about promising initiatives to give gig workers more “grip on pay” from a global perspective: Temper, PayDay, AppJobs, and more.
2:00PM - 2:05PM |
Welcome |
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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 |
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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. Presentation: World Employment and Social Outlook 2021 - The Role of Digital Labour Platforms in Transforming the World of Work |
2:25PM - 3:10PM |
Panel Discussionalgorithms, transparency and Gender Pay Gap |
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Rupa Korde |
Francisca Pereyra |
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Ariela Micha |
Valeria Pulignano |
Anna Ginès Fabrellas |
Daniela Ceccon is Director Data and Journalist at WageIndicator Foundation. She is also a researcher for the SSHOC Project and contributed to several publications related to collective agreements' data, gender-related labour issues and living wages.
Rupa Korde is Assistant Professor of Economics at FLAME University in India and Director Operations at WageIndicator Foundation. She conducted salary surveys in her country, among riders. She can tell that the reality can be rather grim. Poor pay, lack of social protection.Rupa: "We talk about 3 million people that face these struggles".
Presentation: GIG Workers in India - Ground Reality
Francisca Pereyra is based at the Instituto de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento. She does research on Gender and Labour Studies. Francisca has extensively studied the situation of care workers in Argentina, with particular emphasis on domestic service. She currently directs the project 'Platform Economy and Personal Services in the Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area. Implications on working conditions and gender inequalities'.
Ariela Micha is an economist and post-doctoral fellow based at the Economics Department at the Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento. Ariela does research on gender and the labour market as well as on care policies. She holds a PhD in Social Sciences from the Universidad Nacional General Sarmiento (Argentina).
Presentation: Assessing Gender Inequalities in the Platform Economy
Valeria Pulignano is Professor in Sociology at the Centre for Sociological Research (CESO) - KU Leuven. She has published extensively on topics related to the sociology of work, comparative European industrial (employment) relations, labour markets and inequality, working conditions, job quality and workers’ voice. She serves as Principal Coordinator of the research network on Work, Employment and Industrial Relations within the European Sociological Association and she is Co-Researcher at CRIMT (Centre for Globalisation and Work) at the University of Montreal and Laval in Canada.
Presentation: Unpaid Labour & Platform Work
Anna Ginès i Fabrellas is an Associate Professor of Labor Law at Esade and Director of the Institute for Labour Studies. Her research focuses on platform work and the impact of technology and algorithms in the labor relationship and she is the leading investigator of the H2020 project EQUAL4EUROPE and the project LABORAlgorithm funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation.
Presentation: Algorithms, transparency and the gender pay gap
3:10PM - 3:20PM |
Statement on Pay Transparency |
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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? Presentation: Evaluating Fair Pay in the Platform Economy: Insights from the Fairwork Project |
3:20PM - 3:35PM |
Elevator Pitches |
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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.
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TEMPER - ON THEIR WAY TO A LIVING TARIFFNiels 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) Presentation: Webinar - Grip on Pay - TEMPER Presentation: Minimum Living Tariff - WageIndicator |
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PaydayMike 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) Presentation: The road to instant access to earnings |
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SEWASalonie 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) |
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Unveel.ioAlok 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) |
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Asosiasi Driver Online (ADO) IndonesiaTaha Syafaril A - Head of Asosiasi Driver Online 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) |
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Glovo Côte D'IvoireSerge 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) Presentation: Grip on pay in Ivory Coast , Case of GLOVO APP CI |
3:35PM - 4:00PM |
Parallel Break-Out Rooms to discuss your favorite Elevator pitch |
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Join your favorite elevator pitch / case study for a 25-minutes deep dive.
Breakout Room 1: Temper
Breakout Room 3: SEWA
Breakout Room 6: Glovo Côte d'Ivoire
4:00PM - 4:10PM |
Closing |
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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 Presentation: Challenges and Ways Forward |
