A food delivery worker rides a bike in downtown Vancouver in a 2021 file photo.
They're the people who pick you up in an Uber or deliver groceries to your door — and about five per cent of Alberta's workers do so-called "gig work" as their primary job, according to a new report from Statistics Canada.
Despite the fact that Alberta appears to be near the top of the list of the Statistics Canada report, neither legislation nor job action has materialized in the province. A spokesperson for Matt Jones, Alberta's minister of jobs, economy and trade, said the province is continuing to review information on how labour laws may affect gig work while monitoring developments in other jurisdictions.
" is not dismantling the system," wrote Diana Palmerin-Velasco, senior director, future of work, with the Canadian Chamber of Commerce, in a Jim Stanford economist and director of the Vancouver-based Centre for Future Work, says it's taken a while for governments to wrap their arms around the challenges posed by the platform business model.
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