America has long relied on contract labor in some industries such as construction and health care, but gig work has now become the standard for many other kinds of app-based companies such as Uber ...

The federal CARES Act provided 13 additional weeks of federally-funded Pandemic Emergency Unemployment Assistance (PEUC) to all states. In addition, gig workers that normally wouldn’t qualify ...

The modern gig economy, dependent on contract workers ... safety net for surviving a job interruption. According to the Federal Reserve Board’s 2015 survey regarding household economics ...

The prospective guidance is intended to "combat employee misclassification," the federal agency said in a ... Uber, Lyft and DoorDash depend extensively upon gig workers, who haul people and ...

Herman, 30, a videographer and musician from Boulder, Colorado, believed he would qualify for Pandemic Unemployment Assistance, or PUA, a new federal relief program for self-employed gig workers ...

Gov. Andrew Cuomo has asked the federal government to provide unemployment assistance to New York’s gig-economy workers, many of whom remain ineligible for those benefits at the state level.