Delivery drivers and other gig economy workers will be guaranteed minimum wage under a Labor plan to crack down on exploitation.
The federal opposition has foreshadowed a policy aimed at challenging the categorisation of gig workers as independent contractors.
Opposition industrial relations spokesman Tony Burke said some gig economy staff were being paid below minimum wage.
"Right now we have third world working conditions in a first world country - that can't be allowed to go on," he told Sky News on Monday.
Mr Burke said delivery drivers, like those employed by Uber Eats and Deliveroo, could not be classed as contractors.
"Someone driving their own heavy vehicle, they've got a mortgage over it, they employ someone to do the bookkeeping - there is no doubt that they're an independent contractor," he said.
"I just don't accept for a minute that the visa worker with a second-hand bike, racing and running traffic lights trying to make ends meet has that sort of strength, that sort of independence."
Opposition Leader Anthony Albanese is expected to unveil new industrial relations policies in a major speech next week.
