On Monday, a U.S. District judge ruled that Uber, Postmates, and other companies operating in the gig economy could suffer “irreparable harm” … Read more
California’s Gig Worker Law Making Them Employees Is Also An Opportunity For Pay Equity a…
AB5 is California’s new landmark work law concerning independent contractors. It took effect Jan. 1, adding an estimate 2 million contractors and … Read more
California’s New Classification Law: What It Means For Employers and What You Should Do N…
Note: California’s new worker classification law is controversial and has already prompted Uber, Lyft and DoorDash to fund a $90 million campaign … Read more
Managing the Contractor Experience Is Your Job
External workers are employees who work for a company but who are not on its formal payroll. This includes temporary staff, contract employees and … Read more
Technology Can Smooth the Way to Gig Worker Benefits
When choosing to be a gig worker rather than a traditionally employed employee, one of the compromises made is to forgo the protection and economic … Read more
Why You Need a Strategy for Managing Your Gig Worker Experience
External workers are employees who work for a company but who are not on its formal payroll. This includes temporary staff, contract employees and … Read more
Gig Employers Lose Big as Appeals Court Applies Classification Test Retroactively
There’s no way to sugarcoat this one. Yesterday, the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals handed a big loss to gig economy companies by concluding that last year’s … Read more
The Importance of Treating Freelancers As ‘Real’ Workers
One of the first questions people often ask when meeting someone new is what the person does for a living. Whether it is a good or a bad thing, we live in … Read more
End Your Seasonal Recruiting Problems — The Top 10 Proven Solutions
Why You Are Losing “The War For Seasonal Talent” Explained Managers who must recruit seasonal staff need to wake up and realize that the recruiting … Read more
Here’s Why The Upwork IPO Was a Real Snoozer After an Initial Spike
Upwork IPO’d today. With Glassdoor bypassing the public markets for a big payday, a lot of industry attention turned toward the popular freelancing … Read more