Is This The Year for Gig Workers in Albany?

The fight to secure gig workers more employment rights and protections has been one of Albany’s more intractable policy issues for several years now. Powerful and deep-pocketed gig companies like Uber and DoorDash have long resisted efforts to reclassify gig workers...

How Much Do Uber Drivers Really Make?

Do Uber drivers make $10 an hour? $50 an hour? Are they working two jobs at the same time? Do they feel exploited? Do they stick around for years? We had our hunches but we weren’t sure, until now. How are you going to try to make effective labour market laws that...

Should Remote Work Pay be Based on Location?

For the past 12 years, Brian Hartvigsen has worked remotely from Boise, Idaho. Now an engineering director for the analytics platform ChartHop, he first began working remotely shortly out of college for OpenDNS in 2009. At first, he didn’t realize that where he lived...