The B.C. government has unveiled a set of proposed employment standards for "gig workers" with Uber, SkipTheDishes and other app-based services, including minimum earnings and tip protections.

Under the proposed standards, companies would have to pay workers 120 per cent of the province’s minimum wage, not including tips, from the time they accept a ride-hailing or delivery assignment through its completion.

The rate is higher than B.C.’s minimum wage – currently set at $16.75 – because it would not apply to the time spent waiting between assignments, according to the Ministry of Labour.

  • @[email protected]
    6•11 months ago

    “Totally not doing it oops the HST”, which when they rolled it back:

    • they did in a spiteful way ensuring we’d owe a penalty (look what you made us do)
    • They did not ACTUALLY roll it back for stuff like private used auto sales (which now owe both taxes unlike before HST).

    Also, while stuff like “Fast Ferries” was dumb AF, things like the sale of provincial railways should have damn well been criminal.

    • @[email protected]
      2•11 months ago

      I wasn’t old enough to be paying attention at the time, but in hindsight it really looks like the Liberals sold off the fast cats at such a low price to make them look like even more of a failure than they were.