by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | Featured, Gig Workers, Pay, Technology
Workers for a grocery delivery platform owned by U.S. retailer Target are striking to protest at the company’s new payment algorithm. Shipt used to pay its workers a percentage of each order but the Alabama-based firm introduced a black-box computer program last...
by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | Benefits
Mastercard is working with portable benefits program Stride in order to help companies offer U.S. workers access to affordable healthcare plans, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The release stated this is the first time that...
by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | Finance, Technology
The Gig Economy Challenge was held in Malaysia for the first time this year to improve the financial situations of gig workers due to the coronavirus pandemic. In March, 110 teams from 21 member countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) participated in the...
by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | Gig Workers, Jobs, U.S. Economy
With the pandemic sending unemployment to highs not seen since the 1930s Great Depression, more people are joining the growing U.S. army of gig workers, competing for jobs they say pay less and less while trying to avoid contracting COVID-19. Gig workers are...
by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | California, Featured, Future of Work, Gig Workers
A ballot measure would create a new legal classification for Uber drivers, Instacart shoppers, and DoorDash deliverers—not quite employees, but not the independent contractors they’ve been until now. Under Proposition 22, lavishly funded by the gig...
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