{"id":14410,"date":"2021-10-28T01:03:38","date_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:03:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=14410"},"modified":"2021-10-28T01:03:38","modified_gmt":"2021-10-28T05:03:38","slug":"uber-drivers-gig-workers-pressure-ontario-government-for-employee-status-cbc-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=14410","title":{"rendered":"Uber drivers, gig workers pressure Ontario government for employee status | CBC News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>People who drive or deliver for app platforms in Ontario such as Uber, Lyft\u00a0and Skip the Dishes are calling on Premier Doug Ford&#8217;s government to grant them basic workers&#8217; rights by classifying them as employees.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbc.ca\/news\/canada\/toronto\/ontario-gig-workers-uber-lyft-skip-employees-1.6216443\">Uber drivers, gig workers pressure Ontario government for employee status | CBC News<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>what will be the results of them beocming full employees (which I do not object to!).\u00a0 i&#8217;m certain business side will claim prices of delivery will go up, or will be corn in cost of food.\u00a0 so customer pays either way.\u00a0 me no care really; i like the convenience but except for the d3eepst of thew pandemic, ~9 monhts, we did dorrDash or Skip at least once a week.\u00a0 and tipped driver very well, cash, usually $15+.\u00a0 on $100+ meals for 5 (k was here as with Gw&amp;P).\u00a0 on top of the delivery fee and other serivce charges.\u00a0 And I&#8217;m well known for being <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=10344\">anti-pittping<\/a>.\u00a0 (cool to put in link to tags=tipping instead of just to a single article.<\/p>\n<p>a note on tagging: here I was thinking I shpould make a &#8220;anti-tipping&#8221; tag to go with (against?) &#8220;tipping&#8221;.\u00a0 but with such a narrow focus, &#8220;tipping&#8221; should suffiice. since serarchs for &#8220;tipping&#8221; will result in both?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>People who drive or deliver for app platforms in Ontario such as&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[18,285],"class_list":["post-14410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-economics","tag-tipping","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14410"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14410\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}