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Creating a Gig Economy for Out-of-Work Pilots — Flying Drones Instead of Planes
With mass layoffs at US air carriers expected this fall, airline pilots like Michelle Bishop are anticipating the unwelcome reality that pilots like herself may soon be left without stable work. "I'm just trying to fly as much as I can, while I can, because I love...
Taxes and the Gig Economy
Tax Notes senior reporter Paul Jones talks with Richard C. Auxier, senior policy associate at the Urban-Brookings Tax Policy Center, about tax issues raised by the gig economy and how policymakers are working to address them. Read and Listen to the Interview From...
Organizing Labor in an Era of Temporary Work and the Gig Economy
Javier Morillo spent 14 years as president of Service Employees International Union Local 26 in Minnesota. The union represents janitors, security officers, airport workers, window washers and others in the property services industry. Morillo is now a fellow at the...
Honoring and Supporting Gig Workers Nationwide
Sunday, August 16, 2020 was the second National Independent Worker Day. This national holiday honors the tens of millions of independent workers, contractors, consultants, freelancers, self-employed, gig workers, and small business owners in America who choose to...
Tips for Creating Your Startup During the Pandemic
Studies show that most start-up businesses don’t make it past the five-year mark. That does not even account for earthshaking events like the 2020 pandemic, which has shuttered hundreds of thousands of businesses. According to Yelp, 55% of companies that are included...
Proposition 22 and the Future of Gig Work
Reasonable people can disagree whether the business model of Uber, Lyft and other transportation services is a model of flexible part-time work or cruelly exploits non-employee workers. Uber, et al, contend that they give drivers opportunities to voluntarily...
Entrepreneur Tracks Black Experience in Tech
As protests spread across the nation in the aftermath of the police killing of George Floyd in May, scores of corporations voiced support and, in some cases, promised changes to hiring practices or donations to organizations working to improve equity and fight...
Gig Workers: How the Pandemic has Changed their Jobs
In pre-pandemic times, this would be a very busy time of year for Daniel Menzies. Menzies is a DJ and he typically does a lot of weddings, making the summer a pretty lucrative time of year. When he wanted to make a little extra money, especially in slower DJing...
