Amazon Flex, Bolt and Ola criticised for failing to ensure minimum wage

About 2.8 million people in Britain – at least 4.4% of the population – worked in the gig economy in 2017, official data shows. — Bloomberg

LONDON: Gig workers using some of Britain’s most popular labour platforms, including Amazon Flex and Uber Eats, often earn less than the minimum wage, researchers said on Tuesday, as they called for stronger protections.

Amazon’s courier arm and cab services Bolt and Ola came bottom in a University of Oxford study looking at how fairly 11 of the country's best known platforms treat workers, with all three scoring zero points.