It's too bad that the council didn't take a look at their own house. Temporary city employees (who are not term limited) don't get benefits.

@1 - the truth is that gig work as designed is not sustainable, and those "jobs" really don't exist as such. Gig work is a fiction that allegedly lets people who can't afford servants, drivers, etc. "hire" them cheap. So yee-haw! We're all living like the rich now. "Let me call my app-based butler to pop in and pick up a few things at the grocery store. Oh, and please pick up my Taco Bell order on the way back." "Jeeves, please take me to the nearest liquor store. I can't bear to face the traffic myself."

But when the system runs into the uncomfortable fact that we generally want people to be paid a decent wage, you get situations like you are complaining of where it actually costs money to use the services. Just scheduling things through an app doesn't magically make labor cheaper. You could see this coming a mile away.

Looks like us peasants will have to go back to buying our own groceries. I suspect it really won't hurt us.