This study recognizes and highlights the urgent need for legal and policy responses to the diversification of types of employment, a phenomenon which has left an increasing portion of workers outside of the legal protections under individual employment statutes and regulations.
It explores the issue of whether, and to what extent, the rules and standards stipulated in the Labour Standards Act and other individual employment legislation can apply to workers in non-standard employment, who are not legally deemed as ‘employees’ within the meaning of the Labour Standards Act through a purposive and analogical approach.