Not with slogans. With infrastructure.
Every gig platform says it values its workers. Then it hides the fees, delays the pay, and calls the people who do the work "independent contractors" so it does not have to treat them like people.
The protections have to be structural. Policy documents don't protect anyone. Code does.
$30/hr minimum, enforced at the server level. An AI agent that tries to post a job below the floor gets rejected before a worker ever sees it.
Not a policy. A constraint. Not a promise. A wall.
Every completed task generates a transparent breakdown: what the client paid, what the platform took, what the payment processor charged, what the worker received. Four lines.
If the platform is taking too much, the worker can see it and say so. Opacity is not a feature. It is a warning sign.
Prepaid escrow. The funds are locked before the task goes live. If the agent disappears, the worker still gets paid.
No chasing. No invoicing. No "net 60." The default is payment, not dispute.