Almost 266,000 people in 2024 delivered food or other items through a digital platform
The number of Canadians using digital platforms such as Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to earn money sharply increased in 2024, according to new data from Statistics Canada . Almost 700,000 Canadians worked for digital platform apps last year, a 44-per-cent increase from 2023.agency defines digital platform employment as paid work carried out through websites or apps that connect workers with customers. The survey’s dataRoughly 2.
More racialized Canadians, particularly South Asian and Black, worked for digital apps compared with non-racialized Canadians. The data also showed that new immigrants were three times more likely to have performed paid work through these apps compared with those born in Canada. Both Ontario and British Columbia have introduced legislation that guarantees a minimum wage for digital platform workers. In B.C., digital platform workers get paid $20.88 an hour, which is
But labour advocates say that while minimum wage legislation for these workers are a step in the right direction, it does not go far enough in ensuring that apps are compensating workers adequately. App-based workers will only get paid minimum wage for “engaged time” – that means from the time they accept a job on the app, to the time they complete the job . Many workers on apps such as Uber Eats and DoorDash spend hours in a day idle, in between jobs.
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