Judge Temporarily Blocks California Gig Worker Law for Truckers January 2, 2020 By Kanishka Singh A federal judge has temporarily blocked a California labor law meant to take effect Jan. 1 from impacting over 70,000...
UK Court Rules Contractor Entitled to Employment Rights in Test Case for Gig Economy June 18, 2018 By Danica Kirka A London plumber who claimed he was unfairly dismissed after years of working as a contractor won a court ruling...
Thai Authorities Begin Crackdown on Ride-Hailing Firms Uber, Grab March 8, 2017 By Panarat Thepgumpanat and Patpicha Tanakasempipat Thailand’s transport authorities have begun a crackdown on drivers for ride-hailing services Uber and Grab and want the military government...
Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Freelancers, Says Swiss Insurance Agency January 5, 2017 An Uber driver is an employee for which the company must pay social security contributions, a Swiss insurance agency has...
UK Uber Drivers’ Court Victory Over Pay Could Rejigger Gig Economy October 31, 2016 By Jeremy Hodges and Jeremy Kahn Uber Technologies Inc. lost a lawsuit over pay and vacation time for U.K. drivers at the car-sharing service in a...
As On-Demand Economy Grows, Professor Sees New Kind of Capitalism Emerging June 16, 2016 By Justin Fox, Bloomberg Opinion It goes by many names: the “sharing economy,” the “gig economy,” the “on-demand economy.” Arun Sundararajan, a professor at New...
How Gig Economy Is Using Private Arbitration to Win on Labor Classification June 6, 2016 By Joel Rosenblat Sharing economy workers’ best shot at suing to rewrite the rules of their employment may soon pass them by. As...
Labor Unions Searching for Strategies to Join the Gig Economy May 24, 2016 By Dan Levine and Daniel Wiessner The International Association of Machinists and Aerospace Workers trumpeted an agreement reached earlier this month to represent New York Uber...