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Stop Using Alexa and Google Assistant Until You Change This
For years now, security experts have warned of privacy risks associated with using Amazon’s and Google’s AI-based, virtual assistants carelessly. Alexa- and Google Assistant-powered devices have been known, for example, to share our conversations with random people...
Productivity Apps Help You Survive Working From Home
While some American workers have gone back to the office, Gallup’s recent annual Work and Education poll shows that 33% are still working remotely full-time due to the coronavirus pandemic, with an additional 25% working from home part-time. Nearly two-thirds of U.S....
California: Never Christmas for Gig Workers like Santa Claus
COVID-19 is taking an obvious toll on Santa Claus’ ability to visit with children this year. But in California, there’s another thing stopping St. Nicholas from spreading Christmas cheer: Assembly Bill 5, or AB5. Effective Jan. 1, 2020, the state law forces employers...
Rights for Gig Workers Are a Political Issue Now, But Many of Them Can’t Vote
This November, gig economy companies won a resounding victory on the California ballot. Voters overwhelmingly agreed to allow them to keep their workers as contractors, not employees. Now, those companies want to export that framework to the rest of the country....
Why Gig Workers Might Have Benefits in Their Future
With some 40 percent of U.S. workers in long-term temporary employment, or "gig" jobs, the idea of a "social contract" in which an individual receives benefits over a lifetime working for a single firm seems antiquated. But, says U.S. Senator Mark Warner (D-Va.), the...
Australia: Gig Economy Crisis Needs Basic Regulation
The gig economy is in “crisis” and there is a need for urgent action from the federal government after the deaths of five delivery riders in Australia in the last two months, Transport Workers’ Union national secretary Michael Kaine said. On Monday night an...
Will There Be Another Stimulus Check? Bipartisan Legislators Introduce COVID Relief Plan
Congress only has weeks to pass another relief package before the end of the year and a new proposal from a group of bipartisan lawmakers would bring relief to people, but not in the form of direct payments. On Tuesday, Democratic and Republican senators and...
Self-employed? Your State May Have Underpaid Your Jobless Benefits
Most U.S. states have been underpaying jobless benefits for millions of Americans who took a financial hit during the COVID-19 crisis, according to a government watchdog. The Government Accountability Office said in a report on Monday that states...
