[leoedin]

This is the problem though. The delivery apps don't want employees (maybe fair enough) and so have to have self-employed contractors who have the right to substitution. Those contractors are not large corporations - there are thousands of them and they aren't very accountable. That means they can readily substitute people who don't have the right to work.

The end situation is that these delivery apps are providing a back-door route to work for vast numbers of people without that right. It's very easy to say "it's the contractor who didn't do diligence at blame" - but when there's thousands of contractors and the barrier of entry to become a "contractor" is almost nothing, you have a systemic problem.

[lol768]

> when there's thousands of contractors and the barrier of entry to become a "contractor" is almost nothing, you have a systemic problem

Yes, and it's a systemic problem that govt should be handling. It's already illegal to give/pay someone who you know has no right-to-work (or you should've reasonably known / didn't do your due diligence on) a piece of work, it needs to be investigated and enforced properly.