Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohamad said the government is looking into coming up with regulations to protect the interests of those working in the "gig economy".

The gig economy is a free market system where organisations have short-term engagement contracts with independent workers, and thus temporary positions are common.

We now want to have regulations and laws where if the employers break these laws, action can be taken against them... but for now, we do not have such regulations," Mahathir said during the Minister's Question Time (MQT) in the Dewan Rakyat today.