Employment (4)

Question 1

Independent Contractor

Answer 1

Worker in business for himself and is not an employee

Question 2

Employee

Answer 2

Worker who is in a position of subordination to an employer and subject to rules set out in an employment contract

Question 3

Commercial Contract

Answer 3

Contract between two businesses, including a business in the form of an independent contractor

Question 4

Vicarious Liability

Answer 4

Legal rule under which an employer is liable for damage caused to a third party by one or more employees

Question 5

Dependent Contractor

Answer 5

Worker whose status falls in between that of an employee and an independent contractor.
More autonomy and independence than typical employee BUT remains economically dependent of one customer for income and is subject to considerable control at the hands of that customer
Courts have rules dependent contractors should in some respect be treated as if they are employees
= entitled to reasonable notice of termination

Question 6

Gig Economy

Answer 6

Economic arrangement by an exchange of labour for money that is facilitated by an app or electronic platform that connects customers to workers

Question 7

Sagaz Decision

Answer 7

Determine the employment status?
Depends on the level of control the employer had over the “employee” = worker resemble an entrepreneur or an employee at service of the company?
Whose business is it?

Question 8

Unpaid Intern

Answer 8

Term used to describe a person who performs work for a business or receives training by a business but who is not paid for that work

Question 9

Standard employment relationship

Answer 9

Model of employment characterized by stable, long-term job security, full-time hours, decent benefits, wage rates that rise steadily over time

Question 10

Own account self-employment workers

Answer 10

Independent contractors who have no employees

Question 11

Precarious Work

Answer 11

Work that is defined by characteristics such as job insecurity; short job tenure; low pay; few benefits; low c.b. coverage; sporadic, limited, unpredictable work hours

Question 12

Oshidashi

Answer 12

Sumo: push opponent out of the circle while maintaining hand contact all the time
Companies attempt doing it with their workforce
Push workers outside boundaries of employment law while maintaining control and contact over them

Question 13

Lazy Boy and Canac Kitchen case

Answer 13

Attempt to push employees out of the boundaries of employment contract while at the time maintaining control over them