In a ruling yesterday, Spain’s supreme court said that riders for Barcelona-based food delivery service Glovo should be seen as employees and not as freelancers or independent contractors, Reuters reports. As a result, gig-workers in the country could have a solid legal basis for demanding for...
A bill that would require companies like Uber, Lyft and Doordash to treat their gig workers as employees, rather than contracts, passed the California Senate Tuesday. The bill now moves back to the California Assembly, which will need to approve Senate changes to the bill. Democratic Gov. Gav...
gig-workerssharing economywork classificationThe prevalence of the Internet Plus model and mobile applications have brought people into the era of sharing economy, thus accelerating the generation of the "gig-worker." Foreign experiences have tended to classify gig-workers as employees or as an ...
A rule change proposed by US labor officials that could make it easier for contract workers to be reclassified as employees shook investor confidence in the future of "gig economy" firms such as Uber and Lyft. United States labor officials proposed a rule change Tuesday that could make it eas...
Two Companies Forced to Reclassify All Gig Workers as EmployeesThey paved paradise and put up a parking lot. When Joni Mitchell wrote “Big Yellow Taxi,” she had just arrived in Honolulu. She was inspired by the view outside her hotel window, with beautiful green mountains in the distance ...
Some specific examples of potential activities, organized by function, are: California enacts law to classify some gig workers as employees
Now, I was more than curious, so I immediately started to dig. Sure enough, I found a ton of information on CA’s Prop 22, a law written and passed by gig companies during the 2020 national elections to nullify the effects of AB5 which codified all gig workers as Employees. ...
Despite some recent legislative responses that seek to recognise gig workers as formal employees (O’Connor, 2021), labour market policies that inform workers’ rights in the global north countries have not yet introduced and embraced policy that clarifies all aspects of app-based gig work. ...
The rule that would have facilitated classifying gig workers as independent contractors rather than employees may soon be on its way out, if the Biden administration has its way. The US government will withdraw the independent contractor rule, so that gig workers, such as those who work for Ube...
“Good jobs for all” is a goal worth fighting for. Besides classifying solo self-employed workers as employees, Germany and the EU should make it a policy directive that every worker must be covered by a supportive portable safety net with employer contributions. As I proposed in my book Di...