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Unemployment Benefits 4X Pre-pandemic Level
The pace of America's jobs recovery continues to slow. Another 840,000 workers filed for initial unemployment benefits last week on a seasonally adjusted basis, the Department of Labor reported Thursday. That was down from 849,000 in the previous week, but more than...
Target’s Gig Workers Striking Over an Algorithm
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 month...
Mastercard and Stride Offer Portable Health Benefits To Gig Workers
Mastercard is working with portable benefits program Stride in order to help companies offer U.S. workers access to affordable healthcare plans, according to a press release emailed to PYMNTS. The release stated this is the first time that...
PAY:WATCH Wins UNCDF Gig Economy Challenge
The Gig Economy Challenge was held in Malaysia for the first time this year to improve the financial situations of gig workers due to the coronavirus pandemic. In March, 110 teams from 21 member countries of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) participated in the...
Pandemic Leaves U.S. Gig Workers Clamoring for Jobs
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...
Gig Workers Future Up to California Voters
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...
Microsoft Offering Permanent Remote Work
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" guidance internally...
Bold Leadership and the Future of Work for Women of Color
Technology, an industry that promises innovation and meritocracy, is at a moment of reckoning. Major technology companies have come under fire from elected officials, social justice leaders, and the general public for neglecting important social responsibilities in...
