© Reuters. A line of taxis awaiting passengers in Toronto, Ontario, Canada December 13, 2021. REUTERS/Carlos Osorio
(Reuters) – Canada’s Ontario province on Monday will introduce laws to determine a minimal wage and different rights for gig economic system employees equivalent to drivers for ride-hailing corporations, Premier Doug Ford stated.
The laws, which Ford known as a primary for a Canadian province, consists of readability round hours and pay calculations. It additionally consists of safety towards dismissal from a digital platform with out correct discover or rationalization, and guarantee ideas that employees earn stay with them, Ford advised reporters.
“Within the final two years, we have seen big shifts round conventional labor markets and as we construct a resilient economic system, our authorities should hold tempo with these modifications,” Ford stated.
The proposal should undergo the legislative course of and be voted on by the provincial parliament, although Ford’s authorities holds a majority, making its passage doubtless.
Gig corporations have lengthy been criticized for the dearth of advantages and protections they provide drivers.
Uber Applied sciences (NYSE:) Inc in January reached an settlement with Canada’s largest services-sector union to supply employee-like advantages to contractors who work as ride-hail and meals supply drivers.
Uber and United Meals and Industrial Employees Canada (UFCW) had stated they might collectively foyer Canada’s provincial governments to move labor reforms that would supply gig employees with minimal earnings, a advantages fund that features pension and sick pay and different rights.
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