by dankeelan | Nov 10, 2020 | Featured, Jobs, U.S. Economy
The number of Americans applying for unemployment benefits remains high by historical standards, with the latest weekly total coming in at 751,000. While some states have seen unemployment applications recede from record highs after the coronavirus pandemic hit...
by dankeelan | Nov 3, 2020 | Benefits, U.S. Economy
The March CARES Act, which authorized the first $1,200 stimulus check and the $600 weekly unemployment bonus, assisted hundreds of millions of Americans who were unemployed or in financial need when the pandemic first took root. In August, Trump signed four executive...
by dankeelan | Nov 3, 2020 | Future of Work, Gig Workers, U.S. Economy
Biden has pledged to use California’s AB5, which enshrined a three-part test for determining a workers status as employee or contractor, as a model for federal regulations. “Employer misclassification of ‘gig economy’ workers as independent...
by dankeelan | Oct 27, 2020 | Benefits, Featured, U.S. Economy
Millions of jobless Americans are poised to lose their unemployment benefits at the end of the year without action from Congress to extend temporary aid programs. A federal program paying benefits to gig workers and others (such as the self-employed, freelancers,...
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 13, 2020 | Future of Work, Remote Work, U.S. Economy
Most Microsoft employees are still working from home due to the coronavirus pandemic, but the tech giant will apparently offer them more freedom to do so when its offices reopen. The company circulated “hybrid workplace”...
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