by dankeelan | May 25, 2021 | Tips
The lines between work and home life can easily become blurred. Such lines became even more blurry during the pandemic, when many children did not attend school in person while their parents worked from home exclusively. Such situations made it hard for everyone to...
by dankeelan | May 25, 2021 | Benefits, Featured, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy
President Joe Biden’s Labor Department on Wednesday rescinded a Trump-era rule that would have made it easier for businesses in the United States to classify workers as independent contractors instead of employees under the federal Fair Labor Standards Act. “By...
by dankeelan | May 25, 2021 | Remote Work, Technology
The pandemic has been hard on everyone in different ways, and though the end is in sight, we’re not there yet. But, as we close in on a year and a half of working from home, we can look back with some perspective and perhaps a little pride at how...
by dankeelan | May 25, 2021 | Featured, Gig Workers, Legal, Unions
New York delivery and ride-share workers at companies such as Uber Technologies Inc. and Instacart Inc. would have a straightforward ability to unionize and collectively bargain en masse—without being classified as employees—under the terms of a...
by dankeelan | May 25, 2021 | Benefits, Featured, Gig Workers, Pay
No doubt the gig economy is still the rage and growing. But many freelancers, contractors and temporary workers who may be weary of all the hustling, the instability and the scant benefits are switching to more traditional jobs as the economy reopens after more than a...
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