Gig Economy Archives

Starting tomorrow, no Costco employee will earn below $14 an hour. While some locations...

Jenny Braun
Jun 10, 2018

The city of San Francisco subpoenaed Uber and Lyft yesterday, demanding that the ride-hailing...

Matthew Carrieri
May 30, 2018

On May 11, the Ninth Circuit dealt a blow to a Seattle city ordinance permitting Lyft and Uber...

Ryan Wheeler
May 23, 2018

The Competitive Enterprise Institute has weighed in on our debate over flexibility in the gig...

Benjamin Sachs
May 18, 2018

Professor Estlund argues that if gig firms have to classify their workers as employees (as I...

Benjamin Sachs
May 18, 2018

The so-called “flexibility trope” that Professor Sachs identifies and dismantles in his recent...

Cynthia Estlund
May 17, 2018

Today's Philadelphia Inquirer reports on the death of Pablo Avendano, a 34-year old bike...

Benjamin Sachs
May 15, 2018

Over twenty-five years after the hit single “Supermodel (You Better Work)” launched RuPaul’s...

Monica Wilk
May 10, 2018

We'll have more complete analysis in the days ahead, but, as Ross reports, the California...

Benjamin Sachs
May 1, 2018

Last year’s Tax Cuts and Jobs Act gave some gig workers — usually classified as independent...

Maddy Joseph
Mar 27, 2018

The New York Times opinion section has offered two somewhat conflicting views on wage growth in...

Edward Nasser
Mar 1, 2018

In Lawson v. GrubHub Inc., No. 15-cv-05128, the Northern District of California ruled that a...

Edward Nasser
Feb 15, 2018