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1 Mar 2022

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Holly McKenzie-Sutter, Global News (Canada),
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// Radio-Canada avec CBC News

Canada: Ontario unveils new bill to protect gig workers, incl. minimum wage

“Ontario to establish basic gig worker rights including $15 minimum wage”, 28 Feb 2022

Ontario has introduced legislation that would establish employment standards for gig workers, including minimum wage and regular paydays, but critics fear the plan will leave digital app workers with fewer rights than those in other jobs.

The Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act...

[P]roposes to cover ride hailing and delivery drivers, as well as others who are offered work assignments through digital platforms...

[Labor Minister] McNaughton said the legislation will establish foundational rights for gig workers in a [first for Canada]...

Proposed rights within the bill...include the guarantee that workers will get written information detailing how platforms’ algorithms work, how pay is calculated, how operators’ performance rating systems work and how operators collect tips.

It would also establish a recurring pay period and a $15 minimum wage for active hours that’s tied to the provincial minimum wage, while barring operators from withholding tips and prohibiting reprisal against workers for exercising their rights under the act.

The proposed legislation would also require operators to give workers notice of and rationale for their removal from a platform if they are removed for more than 24 hours, and it would see digital platform work disputes resolved in Ontario.

The bill won’t address the employment status of app-based gig workers – who are largely classified as contractors and not employees – but the province says it will give them employment rights.

Deena Ladd, executive director of the Toronto-based Workers’ Action Centre, said the proposed law is a “substandard set of rights,” as it doesn’t cover employment standards like overtime and holiday pay or emergency leave.