Finn Makela is an associate professor at the Faculty of Law of the Université de Sherbrooke, where he teaches labour & employment law and legal theory. He recently published, with Derek McKee (Université de Montréal) and Teresa Scassa (University of Ottawa), Law and the “Sharing Economy”: Regulating Online Market Platforms (Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press, 2018).
The so-called gig economy is taking off in Canada. Though reliable data is hard to come by, staffing agency Randstad estimates that 20 to 30% of the Canadian workforce is...
