gig workers

FILE - Gig workers call for better working conditions in San Francisco on June 18, 2019. (Kevin N. Hume/S.F. Examiner)

Inside gig work: Trading flexibility for uncertainty, risk and racism

Drivers say they’ve been injured and assaulted, and worked shifts where they lost out on money

  • Dec 19, 2022

 

In this Jan. 31, 2018, file photo, a Lyft logo is installed on a Lyft driver’s car next to an Uber sticker. (AP Photo/Gene J. Puskar)

Women working in gig-economy face harassment, lack of safety support

A study found ‘gender agnostic’ design of apps allows women to be harassed with little recourse

 

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Provincial competition law needed to address the power of gig work platforms

Gig work — especially those housed on digital platforms — are at a greater risk of monopsony

  • Mar 19, 2022

 

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