Regulating work in the gig economy

The 'gig economy' which includes 'crowd-work' and 'work-on-demand via apps', is often seen as the future of work. And though it makes headlines nearly daily, many important questions regarding labour protection have yet to be addressed.

Crowd-work is work that is performed on on-line platforms by groups of individual workers, responding to on-line calls. It can include skilled jobs such as programming and translation to more routine jobs such as cleaning data, tagging photographs or compiling lists of books or movies that on-line customers may be interested in purchasing. The work is performed on-line by the