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Author:Adi Kamdar

Adi Kamdar is a student at Harvard Law School.

May 30, 2016
News & Commentary

Adi Kamdar

Uber will not release the race and gender breakdown of its 6,000 corporate office employees according to the Boston Globe, despite calls from activist groups to do so. Last week, Uber dismissed requests to add a tipping feature to its app, arguing that passengers’ unconscious biases would lead to disparities in tips between white and […]

Uber, Independent Contractors, and Travis Kalanick’s Price-Fixing Conspiracy

May 5, 2016 Adi Kamdar

If you’ve ever taken an Uber, you probably want to pay attention to this lawsuit. After all, you may make some money off of it. In December 2015, Connecticut native Spencer Meyer, in a putative class action on behalf of all Uber passengers in the U.S., filed an antitrust lawsuit against Travis Kalanick, CEO and […]

Portable Benefits and the Gig Economy: A Backgrounder

Apr 8, 2016 Adi Kamdar

The debate surrounding the gig economy has cast light on workers who depend for their livelihood on multiple sources of income. For example, an Uber driver may also be working for Lyft, and a freelance website designer may have five clients at the same time. But when classified as contractors, these workers may miss out […]

Why Some Gig Economy Startups Are Reclassifying Workers as Employees

Feb 19, 2016 Adi Kamdar

While gig economy behemoths like Uber and Lyft are fighting tooth and nail to keep classifying their workers as independent contractors and not employees, a steady stream of prominent startups have made the switch from 1099 to W2. The most recent company to begin employing its workers is Honor, a healthcare startup that sends caregivers […]

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OnLabor

Law. Workers. Organizing.

OnLabor is a blog devoted to workers, unions, and their politics. We interpret our subject broadly to include the current crisis in the traditional union movement (why union decline is happening and what it means for our society); the new and contested forms of worker organization that are filling the labor union gap; how work ought to be structured and managed; how workers ought to be represented and compensated; and the appropriate role of government — all three branches — in each of these issues.

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May 30, 2016

Uber, Independent Contractors, and Travis Kalanick’s Price-Fixing Conspiracy

Portable Benefits and the Gig Economy: A Backgrounder

Why Some Gig Economy Startups Are Reclassifying Workers as Employees