On 17 March 2022, the Taipei High Administrative Court, in 109-Su-1046 Decision, stated the employment relationship between a digital delivery platform and a delivery persons.
The Tokyo District Court rulled that a restaurant review platform's unilateral change to its rankings algorithm violated the Japanese antitrust law that prohibits abuse of "superior bargaining power."
The decision shows that, even if Big Tech groups have long argued that their algorithms should be considered trade secrets in all circumstances, courts and regulators across the world have begun to challenge that position.
Last May, GMB Union (General, Municipal, Boilermakers' and Allied Trade Union (GMBATU, than shortened to GMB), and Deliveroo have signed an historic union recognition deal covering the company's more than 90,000 self-employed riders.
On 7 April 2022, the Government of Ontario passed Bill 88, the Working for Workers Act, 2022, that received Royal Assent on 11 April 2022 and is now in force.
Between January 2019 and June 2021, Just Economy and Labour Institute (JELI), with support from the International Development Research Center Canada (IDRC) conducted action-oriented research on platform-based care workers including domestic workers and massage therapists in Thailand.