The Victoria state government in Australia will consider new laws to protect people who drive ride-share vehicles and deliver food in the gig economy, despite the state having little power over industrial relation laws, reports ABC News Australia.  Victoria's Opposition Leader Michael O'Brien warned against the state devising industrial laws, saying that the Fair Work Commission was perfectly suited to determine the status of workers in the gig economy. "It's got to be fair for workers and fair for businesses,'' O'Brien said. A spokeswoman for the online food delivery service Deliveroo said the vast majority of its riders valued the "flexibility of being able to choose when and where they work, and for how long". Meanwhile, a spokesman for Industrial Relations Minister Michaelia Cash said the gig economy presented opportunities for flexibility and variety in how people worked, built their skills and how businesses operated. An inquiry into the state's gig economy has found that workers have few rights. Many delivery drivers are considered individual contractors, which denies them access to superannuation, compensation and sick leave.