July 1, 2025: ON Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act eliminates hourly minimum wage for gig workers
July 1, 2025 On Canada Day 2025, Doug Ford’s “Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act” will take effect, rolling back labour standards across the Province for a growing segment of workers. The new legislation effectively ends the hourly minimum wage for gig workers, and predominantly benefits US-based tech platforms, who can continue to exploit workers in […]
Read more‘Driver poverty.’ Report shows Toronto ride-hail gig workers earn $6.37 an hour after expenses
Toronto ride-hail drivers earn an average of $6.37 per hour worked, well below Ontario’s minimum wage of $16.55, after costs related to using a personal vehicle for work are factored in, according to a new report from RideFairTO on Monday.
Read moreFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Report exposes Uber’s poverty pay in Toronto Uber’s proposed Provincial policy is a poverty trap, not a gig work solution, say Ridefair, RDAO
Toronto, ON (February 12, 2024): Today, Ridefair Toronto and the Rideshare Drivers Association of Ontario (RDAO) released a report titled “Legislated Poverty” to address Uber’s deceptive and poorly understood claim that the median earning for Toronto drivers comes to $33.35 per engaged hour. The report estimates that this figure corresponds to actual hourly earnings of […]
Read moreLegislated Poverty
On February 12, 2024, the RideFair Coaliton and the Rideshare Drivers Association of Ontario released a report documenting below-minimum wage pay in Toronto’s ride-hailing sector. The report contextualizes Uber Canada’s report of drivers’ median “earnings per engaged hour,” $33.35 as of November 2023, and uses City of Toronto and Canada Revenue Agency data to estimate […]
Read moreSpacing: Reining in Uber
In October, City Council temporarily paused issuing ride-hailing licenses for Lyft and Uber at 52,000, or ten times the pre-Uber average of taxi licenses. This pause has been supported by existing drivers but opposed by Uber and Lyft. In the days following this decision, we witnessed a resurfacing of Uber’s founding narrative, and while this […]
Read moreRiccochet: Toronto’s cap on new Uber licences is good, actually
Uber and its supporters on city council and in the business community are lashing out after council voted to temporarily pause the issuing of new vehicle-for-hire licences. It’s a sharp departure for a city whose regulatory processes have long been captured by the multinational platform monopoly, and a positive and gutsy step for Toronto’s newly-elected […]
Read moreCity Council votes to pause licensing Uber and Lyft drivers until fleet optimization study concludes; pause translates into more money for drivers, fewer cars on the road and fewer emissions
Toronto, ON (Oct. 11, 2023): In the face of mounting evidence that the deregulation of the vehicle-for-hire industry under John Tory’s administration has had a detrimental impact on the livelihoods of drivers, congestion, the environment and public transit, Toronto City Council voted 16-7 to pause the licensing of new ride-hail drivers until staff reports back […]
Read moreBuilding a just transition for for-hire drivers
Building a just transition for for-hire drivers Once a pathway to economic security, taxi and ride-hailing jobs have become some of the most precarious in the City, due in no small part to the industry’s deregulation under Mayor Tory in 2016. At committee, Councillors introduced three measures aiming to ensure a more just transition for […]
Read moreRideFair Coalition calls on mayoral candidates to regulate Uber to support the City’s climate goals
Toronto, May 18, 2023 – Today, Toronto’s RideFair Coalition delivered an open letter to Toronto’s mayoral candidates to commit to ensuring City policies reflect its climate goals and reduce car dependency by regulating ride-hailing apps like Uber and Lyft and by promoting sustainable transportation alternatives. This open letter is signed by a cross-section of environmental […]
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