From Monday, food delivery workers will get minimum hourly pay. Here’s why it matters

Elias Bitar/Getty From next Monday, August 17, thousands of food delivery workers across Australia will benefit from new workplace protections – including new minimum hourly rates of pay. That’s because on Tuesday, a new minimum standards order was handed down by an expert panel of the Fair Work Commission. The order covers “employee-like” workers at digital on-demand delivery platforms. This is the first order of its kind, and as such it sets a benchmark for separate applications currently…