Menulog says it could be forced to increase prices by up to $15 a delivery if the Albanese government does not draw a line in the sand against employment-style conditions such as penalty rates under its proposed gig economy laws.

The on-demand food delivery platform, the only one to trial gig workers as employees rather than contractors, has warned that workers prefer the “dynamic earnings” of gig work that lifts pay with demand rather than rigid employment conditions, but that the government’s Closing Loopholes Bill fails to recognise that.