Tony Sheldon (NSW, Australian Labor Party) Share this | Link to this | Hansard source

This week we have had a very special guest in this building. Yavuz is the uncle of Burak Dogan, a 30-year-old food delivery rider who was tragically killed on the job on 2 April 2020. Burak is one of the 11 food delivery writers who have been killed since 2017. I'll use the rest of my time to share Yavuz's words:

It was one of the most difficult jobs of my life to inform the family of Burak's death.

Burak was an engineer.

He was a hard working man.

He came to study in Australia to improve his English so that he could get a better position at work.

He had 6 months to go to finish his study.

He was killed by a big truck, very tragically.

We had to wrap him up in plastic to keep his body all in one piece.

To send it to his family.

We have been contacting Uber and the insurance companies.

The insurance company said Burak finished his last job 11 minutes after the 15 minutes insurance cover time.

So they were not liable for anything.

Then Uber made a comment after the investigation finalised.

They were not liable for anything because Burak was not working for them at the time of his death.

But Uber sent their records of his log ins to the police.

They were trying to give him job offers at the time of his death.

Most likely he was looking at it when he went under the truck.

When he was dying, they sent another message 3 or 4 minutes later.

That's the attitude of the company.

What we would like to see is justice.

We hope Parliament is going to do something about this injustice.

This is all the family is asking for.

I say this. Stop Uncle Sam's sweatshops killing Australian drivers here.