Court Rules Uber, Lyft Can Classify Gig Workers as Contractors March 14, 2023 By Jackie Davalos Uber Technologies Inc., Lyft Inc. and other gig economy companies scored a victory after a California appeals court upheld the...
Deliveroo Found Guilty, Fined for Abusing Riders’ Rights in France April 20, 2022 By Mathieu Rosemain Two former managers of Deliveroo were given suspended one-year prison sentences and fined 30,000 euros ($32,380) by a French court...
European Gig Workers Hail ‘Landmark’ Directive to Make Them Employees December 9, 2021 By Jillian Deutsch and Ivan Levingston Millions of platform workers in Europe could be on their way to being designated as employees, a move that labor...
ISC Launches General Liability Program for Gig Economy Contractors May 19, 2021 Integrated Specialty Coverages (ISC), a multi-line program administrator that builds end-to-end insurance products with artificial intelligence (AI) engineering and data...
Madrid Court Rules Deliveroo Food-Delivery Couriers Are Employees, Not Freelancers July 24, 2019 A Madrid court ruled on Tuesday that couriers for online food delivery group Deliveroo are company employees, not just freelancers,...
With Growth of the Gig Economy, States Rethink How Workers Get Benefits February 23, 2017 By Sophie Quinton As more and more Americans hold nontraditional jobs that don’t have benefits attached — think freelance graphic designers or Uber...
National Labor Board Urges Court to Block Uber Arbitration Agreement November 3, 2016 By Joel Rosenblatt The U.S. labor-protection watchdog is taking sides with Uber Technologies Inc. drivers in their fight to be treated better than...