“Gig economy” or “online platform” companies that provide personal labor services—Uber, Lyft, TaskRabbit, Handy, Instacart, Grubhub, and others—challenge American law’s system for classifying workers as “employees” or “independent contractors, As I explain in my new article “Workers, Benefits, and Protection in the U.S. Gig Economy,” employees are protected by a legally imposed workplace social compact. […]
