B.C. Employment Standards Coalition Co-Chairs David Fairey and Pamela Charron have just published a new article in the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives Policy Note. They explain how B.C.’s new gig worker legislation reinforces precarity for app-based ride-hail and food delivery gig workers. They also note that these workers are “predominantly racialized new immigrants who work long hours without overtime pay and without any pay while signed on waiting for trip assignments.”

You can read their full article here: https://www.policynote.ca/bill-48/