If you drive for Uber Eats, deliver with DoorDash, or work through any digital platform, you’re part of Ontario’s fast-growing gig economy — and as of July 1, 2025, you have legal protections.
The Digital Platform Workers’ Rights Act (DPWRA) is officially in effect, introducing minimum-wage guarantees and stronger transparency rules for gig workers in Ontario. These changes finally give app-based drivers and couriers some of the workplace rights other employees have long enjoyed.
A gig worker is someone who completes short-term or task-based jobs through an online platform — like Uber, Lyft, SkipTheDishes, or DoorDash.
Most are still treated as independent contractors, not employees, which means they don’t automatically qualify for all benefits under Ontario’s Employment Standards Act (ESA).
The DPWRA doesn’t change that classification, but it does give every platform worker new, enforceable rights around pay, transparency, and fairness.
Under the DPWRA, all digital-platform workers in Ontario must be paid at least the general minimum wage for their “engaged time.”
That means:
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