All workers in Asia deserve job protections, not just company staff

Fresh policy approach would balance flexibility with minimum standards

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Delivery riders waiting outside a McDonald's restaurant in Singapore in June 2021: It is important to delink worker protections from worker status. © NurPhoto/Getty Images

Tay PeiChin is the Singapore-based policy lead of the digital government unit of the Tony Blair Institute for Global Change.

Governments around the world grappling with how to regulate the burgeoning digital labor platform economy have taken a wide range of approaches in relation to worker status.

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