In the UK companies are crying out for employees on solid reliable wages.
You're right it's a good way to get around immigration law, where someone with a right to work subcontracts the job to someone without and keeps 10/20/50%. That tends to be more the case with things like ubereats rather than traditional pizza-place-employing-driver -- you can't work in dominos without showing right to work, and you can't swap out the employee as people would notice, because you are Alice the driver who's kids have just left home and plays in the local cricket team, not "Driver 24601"
Given that we had no problem getting pizzas, currys etc in 2000 before ubereats I'm not sure I recognise the "without gig work we wouldn't get warm pizza" argument.
You're right it's a good way to get around immigration law, where someone with a right to work subcontracts the job to someone without and keeps 10/20/50%. That tends to be more the case with things like ubereats rather than traditional pizza-place-employing-driver -- you can't work in dominos without showing right to work, and you can't swap out the employee as people would notice, because you are Alice the driver who's kids have just left home and plays in the local cricket team, not "Driver 24601"
Given that we had no problem getting pizzas, currys etc in 2000 before ubereats I'm not sure I recognise the "without gig work we wouldn't get warm pizza" argument.