by dankeelan | Oct 20, 2020 | California, Diversity, Gig Workers
As Election Day nears, California voters are being bombarded with ads featuring smiling Black and brown faces championing Proposition 22, the initiative by Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other gig companies that seeks to exempt them from a state law requiring...
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 | 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...
by dankeelan | Oct 12, 2020 | Future of Work, Gig Workers
Besides being more cost-effective, gig and remote workers are proving to be more productive, efficient and deadline-oriented The adage,‘Necessity is the mother of invention’, has been ringing true during the past decade or more as tech innovations keep disrupting...
by dankeelan | Oct 12, 2020 | Benefits, Gig Workers
The Colorado Department of Labor and Employment on Thursday said roughly 9,000 gig workers received overpayments of their benefits. The agency is now trying to work with those claimants who were then asked to pay back that money. “Basically it was panic mode, what are...
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