gig economy

The gig economy is a labor market characterized by short-term contracts or freelance work as opposed to permanent jobs. In this economy, individuals work as independent contractors or freelancers, often ...

Nearly 900,000 Canadians turned to gig work as their main job in the final three months of 2022, ...

TWU said Hungry Panda’s actions showed the need to enact minimum standards in the gig economy as quickly ...

The federal rule forces businesses to treat contractors as employees, driving up business costs and making contractors less ...

Commentary The gig economy has become a crucial part of our nation’s economic infrastructure. Beyond platforms such as ...

Commentary Unions neither trust nor understand the entrepreneurial spirit. They strive for uniformity of outcomes, and trade on ...

Digital platforms such as Airtasker are not necessarily exempt from Labor's new gig worker protections, with the workplace ...

Commentary The Australian Labor Party and the trade unions have been waging a war against what they call ...

Republican members of Congress say President Joe Biden’s administration is waging war on independent contractors. Democrats counter that ...

More and more people are becoming gig workers due to the massive layoffs in recent days. It can ...

By Yvette C. Hammett From Kiplinger's Personal Finance Jennifer Morley worked as a high school teacher in Hillsborough ...

British Columbia is developing a plan to regulate its gig economy, which includes drivers for ride-share and delivery ...

The gig and digital economy has expanded in recent years, with the rapid growth of services such as ...

Online food delivery service Deliveroo has “immediately” ceased operations in Australia, leaving over 15,000 workers in limbo. The ...

The Supreme Court turned away a challenge to California’s “radical” worker-classification law that virtually outlaws independent contracting, including ...

The High Court of Australia on Wednesday handed down two landmark decisions that provide greater clarity on the ...

The Supreme Court won't consider a challenge by Cal Cartage Transportation Express, a trucking company, to California's unusually ...

Britain’s Supreme Court on Friday unanimously ruled that Uber drivers are workers rather than self-employed, in a landmark ...

Commentary The people of California have sent a clear message: Gig-economy workers aren't employees. Through a referendum, voters ...

A traffic jam of opinions has accumulated after Californians voted to overturn in large part a controversial law ...

California Gov. Gavin Newsom quietly signed a law on Sept. 4 repealing parts of an unpopular law that ...

IRVINE, Calif.—Youth athletics programs in California are facing major budget hurdles in complying with Assembly Bill (AB 5), ...

A federal judge refused to grant Uber and Postmates an injunction against California’s unusually restrictive anti-contractor law, even ...

A federal judge has temporarily shielded 70,000 independent truckers from an unusually restrictive and possibly unconstitutional California law ...

Ride-hailing company Uber Technologies Inc and courier services provider Postmates Inc asked a U.S. court to block a ...

Freelance journalists filed suit this week against California in federal court in hopes of striking down an unusually ...

Commentary The days of Americans working 9 to 5, Monday through Friday, in a cradle-to-grave job are all ...