Canada’s top court won’t hear arguments that Amazon is the real employer of tens of thousands of people working for contractors to deliver its packages. A proposed class-action suit sought $250 million in hourly wages, pay for overtime, breaks and holidays, and damages for violating employment standards. (The Logic)

Talking point: The Supreme Court’s decision upholds an Ontario court ruling in 2023 that any such complaints have to be dealt with in arbitrations or individual lawsuits. Amazon has worked hard to not be the legal employer of the people who deliver its parcels. This case sought to get a judge to declare that Amazon’s practical control over their work makes them its employees anyway; the Ontario ruling found it didn’t “come a light-year close to [that] ambition” and if there are valid claims about employment standards, delivery drivers need to bring them against Amazon’s dozens of contract logistics companies.