Gig Economy

By Ministry of Labour | British Columbia Feedback gathered through the Province’s public engagement about app-based ride-hailing and food-delivery work has been compiled into a “what we heard” report. The…

Source: Government of Canada Editor’s note: The following text is taken from the 2023 federal budget. When workers are engaged in a typical employer-employee relationship, but are misclassified as something…

By Employment and Social Development Canada Every day, more and more Canadian workers are taking on gig work—casual work arrangements involving specific and often one-off tasks, frequently through digital platforms.…

Canada’s first permanent cap on fees charged to restaurants by food-delivery companies will go into effect in British Columbia on Jan. 1, 2023, giving restaurant owners more certainty about their…

The B.C. government is hosting a series of regional in-person roundtables to hear directly from gig workers about their jobs and working conditions, and the unique challenges for app-based ride-hailing…

A sound engineer was entitled to keep a $2,000 down payment for audio work on a movie, a British Columbia tribunal has ruled, despite the fact the company that hired…