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15 W. J. Legal Stud. 1 (2024)

handle is hein.journals/wesjalals15 and id is 1 raw text is: A NEW DAWN FOR CANADIAN PLATFORM WORKERS? EVALUATING THE DIGITAL PLATFORM WORKERS' RIGHTS ACT 2022 Fife Ogunde* INTRODUCTION Platform work is defined as a form of employment that uses an online platform to enable organisations or individuals to access other organisations or individuals to solve problems or to provide services in exchange for payment. Platform work has the following characteristics, among others: paid work being organized through an online platform, tripartite relationship (online platform, client, and worker), outsourced labour, and provision of services on demand.2 Digital labour platforms can be divided into two broad types: location-based platforms that require work to be performed in a particular location, and online work platforms through which work can theoretically be performed from anywhere via the internet.3 Notable online crowdsourcing platforms include Upwork, Amazon Mechanical Turk, Innocentive, and Openideo, while location- based platforms include Doordash, Uber, and Lyft. As of January 2021, there are at least 777 active digital labour platforms globally.4 * Fife Ogunde is a research specialist and consultant with research interests in human rights law, criminal law, and constitutional law. He has a Master's degree in Human Rights Law and a PhD in Law from the University of Nottingham. He is also a barrister and solicitor of the Federal Republic of Nigeria. The author wishes to thank the reviewers of previous drafts of this Article for their helpful comments. 1 See Eurofund, Employment and working conditions of selected types of platform work (September 2018) (Publications Office of the European Union, Luxembourg) at 9. 2 Ibid. 3 See Location-based Platform Work Principles (2022), online: Fairwork <fair.work/en/fw/principles/fairwork-principles-location-based- work/#: -:text=In%20the%20first%E2%80%94%E2%80%99geographically- tethered%E2%80%99 %20or%20%E2%80%98location- based%E2%80%99%20platforms %E2%80%94the%20work%20is,person%20from%20 one%20part%20of%20town%20to%20another%29>. 4 See World Employment and Social Outlook 2021: The role of digital labour platforms in transforming the world of work (23 February 2021) at 46, online (pdf): International Labour Organization <www.ilo.org/wcmsp5/groups/public/---dgreports/---dcomm/--- publ/documents/publication/wcms_771749.pdf>.

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