gig economy

Gig workers get gouged. Hereā€™s how Trump can šŸ—¹help ā€”Ā and win swing states too

Donald Trump understands the old maxim that taxation is theft, and to that end heā€™s proposed some interesting ways to ašŸ°meliorate the burden on actual working people via aggressive tax...

 Uber, Lyft win major ruling in California as top court reā™‰jects bid to classify drivers as employees šŸ¦©

šŸ§ø The court dismissed a lawsuit claimingĀ the 2020 ballot measureĀ known as Proposition 22, whiš’‰°ch preserves drivers' contractor status while granting them some benefits, was unconstitutional. 

One in five food app delivery workers are assaultź¦¬ed on job: study

 Nearly 21% of šŸ€…delivery drivers reported being attacked while working for food ordering apps, ļ·½while 22% claimed they were seriously injured on the job.

Biden wants to follow foolish California and baą± n freelancing ā€” putting millions out of work

The Labor Department just imposed 300 pages of new regulations to reclā™‘assify many individušŸŒ³al contractors as payroll employees.

New rule overhauling gig economy riles business groups: 'Completely unnecessary'

The rule will require that workers be considered š’employees rather than contractors when they are "economically dependent" on a company.

I make $9K per month with this side hustle ā€” here's how you can, too

Almost half of Americans have started a sidą¶£e gig to earn a little extra cash amid the ongoing economic squeeze ā€” and one woman has her own crafty outside-of-hours venture.

  Creative ways to makšŸ—¹e an extra buck after the holidays šŸƒ

It's Christmas, which means seasonal work has dried up, and your bank account is ź¦•drained. šŸ’§

Illegal underground gig economy booms in NYC as migrants await work permits -- all while living off city's dime

The Post spoke with ź§ƒ36 migrants over a five-daź¦”y period, of which 65% said they were already taking off-the-books jobs in food service and delivery, construction or housekeeping.

Cheer IRS's delay of Congress' ugly rule socking the gig economy ā€” but it needs to die entirely

Joe Biden talks šŸ˜¼a good game about making the wealthy pay their ā€œfair shareā€ of taxes.

 Team Biden is using the IRS to attack the gig šŸŽ¶economy

AšŸ’ recent tweet says it all.Ā ā€œSam Bankman-Fried: I donā€™t know where $10 billion went. The Pentagon: We donā€™t know where $2ź¦š.2 trillion went. The IRS: You just sent $601.37 donā€™t...

Techā€™s slow-motion craš†sh isšŸ…· now Mayor Adamsā€™ problem 

After Facebook laid offĀ 871 New York City employees and Twitter laid offĀ 418 locals, Mayor Adams announced the cityā€™s deficits over the next 3 Ā½ šŸØyears are worse than he projected.

Behind the Crimea-bridge strike, no ā€˜ableismā€™ in Fetterman qā€™s and other commš’entary 

šŸ‰ Expect new Ukraine commander Sergey Surovikin ā€œto destroy civilians, power plants, and hospitalsā€ and ā€œpress harder for the use of chemical weapons, and possibly nuclear ones.ā€

 Uber, LyfšŸƒt, DoorDash slump as šŸ“–feds propose big change to gig economy

Signing them up as employees could mean additional costs for companies and reduce the cut they take from every salįƒ¦e, delivery or ride.

Uber Eats drivšŸŒer sayšŸ…ŗs he made only 37 cents in 4 hours 

An Uber Eats driver went viral fošŸŒŠr claiming that he netted a measly $0.37 for four hours of work. The driver made $30.97 in eight deliveries, but had to fill...

Amazon tests delivery of pš“†‰ackages directly from shopping ź¦Æmalls

Amazon is testing a new service that uses gig drivers to deliver goods directly from stores at shopping malls. The Seattle-based web giantā€™sšŸ’¦ so-called ā€œFlexā€ drivers, who use their own... ź¦•

UberEats quietly slashes orders for little-known 'walkers' who deliver on foot

The ride-haiļ·½ling giant's "delivery walker" food service has existed for at least five years worldwide in large cities like New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, VašŸ’§ncouver and Singapore.

Uber to provide pensioā™n plans for UK drivers

Uber said it would start rolling out its pension plan to alļ·½l eligible drivers in the United Kingdom, months after granting workers' rights to drivers in the country.

UberšŸ”„ must ź¦¬classify drivers as employees, not contractors: Dutch court

The news follows a similar decisiošŸ­n earlier this year in the UK, in which the nationā€™s supreme court gave more than 70,000 Uber drivers access to a minimum wage, pension...

UPSąµ© adds gig-worker delivery with Roadie acquisition

United Parcel Service on FrišŸ”Æday announced plans to buy Roadie, a crowd-sourced, same-day delivery company whose major clź§Ÿients include home improvement chain Home Depot.