Employment legislation has granted employees significant key rights designed to safeguard them from the actions of their employer. New business models, like those that the ride-hailing service UBER have made many of these safeguards at best questionable and at worst, obsolete.

Read: Proposed class action against Uber can proceed, Ontario appeal court rules https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/ontario-uber-appeal-1.4963792

• What implications could this case have for people working in the "new-economy" ? Can you give an example?
• What legislative changes could or should be made to existing labour laws to cope with the changes in the digital labour environment?