by dankeelan | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured, Gig Workers, Healthcare, Nursing
In a lawsuit that may have implications for other sectors heavily reliant on temporary staffing, such as long-term care, a hospitality hiring agency is suing competitors over their alleged, intentional misclassification of workers. Platforms can pay workers less...
by dankeelan | Jan 14, 2025 | Gig Workers
The FTC and New York’s attorney general have accused Handy, the gig app customers can use to book cleaners, handymen, and more, of making deceptive claims about how much workers could earn through its platform. In a complaint filed on Tuesday in...
by dankeelan | Jan 14, 2025 | Featured, Future of Work
The ability to think long term is becoming increasingly valued – both on an organisational and individual level – as a way to meet emerging challenges and reap the benefits of future opportunities. Few know the importance of thinking ahead as well as Sophie Howe....
by dankeelan | Jan 7, 2025 | Gig Workers
Perhaps the largest group of Americans who have no home in the political status quo are the self-employed. According to the U.S. Census, this demographic includes 16.5 million workers, or about 10.4 percent of the total working population. But this is likely a...
by dankeelan | Jan 7, 2025 | Cybersecurity, Start Up
As regular readers of TechCrunch will know, 2024 was — much like the years before it — full of data breaches, ransomware attacks, and mass-hacks exploiting some of the most trivial software vulnerabilities. Even the most well-resourced organizations failed to keep...
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