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First Case Where FTC Charges Company in Gig Economy With Violating the Business Opportunity Rule

Hinch Newman LLP on 7/11/2024

On July 2, 2024, the Federal Trade Commission announced that it is taking action against a gig work company for allegedly misleading consumers about the money they could make on the company’s platform and marketing its...more

10 Ways Gig Economy Companies Can Protect Sensitive Customer and Worker Data

Fisher Phillips on 11/18/2022

A recent blog post by the leader of a cybersecurity platform provides a suggestion as to how gig economy companies can protect all the sensitive data they accumulate – and we can add a few more items to that checklist. Arti...more

Cozen Cities - November 11, 2022

Cozen O'Connor on 11/11/2022

LOS ANGELES — Waymo Says It’s Bringing Robotaxis to L.A. Driverless car company Waymo, owned by Google parent Alphabet, said October 19 that it plans to add autonomous taxi fleet operations to Los Angeles. “L.A. is in the top...more

Ninth Circuit Holds that the Dynamex ABC Test Applies Retroactively, But Not Prop. 22

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP on 10/1/2021

On September 20, 2021, the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit reversed Grubhub, Inc.’s lower court victory in a class action case involving the alleged misclassification of a former driver. The driver claimed he was...more

The Battle Continues: Prop 22 Struck Down, AB 5 Appealed

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/27/2021

The long-running battle over the classification of workers as independent contractors or employees in California continues, with a trial court judge striking down Proposition 22 and an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court to...more

The Gig Economy This Year — 2020 Popular Reads on JD Supra

Beacon Insights by JD Supra on 12/10/2020

A recap of some of the most well-read publications covering the gig economy and related matters on JD Supra during 2020....more

The Election Is Over—Now What? Understanding the Biden Administration’s Policy Priorities

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 11/10/2020

President-Elect Biden won a mandate to bring normalcy back to government and to seek bipartisan compromise where possible. The makeup of the U.S. Senate may limit the Biden Administration’s ability to deliver its most...more

Trump vs. Biden: Technology and the Internet

Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP on 11/4/2020

In this election cycle, technology and internet policy is a persistent factor across multiple issue areas. With implications for national security, economic equality, infrastructure and market regulation, the next...more

Currents - Energy Industry Insights: Issue 40, October 2020

Spilman Thomas & Battle, PLLC on 10/26/2020

West Virginia Supreme Court Hears Arguments in Horizontal Drilling Taxation Case Involving Antero - "At issue is a consumer sales tax assessment of around $1 million the West Virginia State Tax Department has levied on...more

Financial Daily Dose 10.23.2020 | Top Story: CA Appeals Court Tells Uber and Lyft to Treat Drivers as Employees

Robins Kaplan LLP on 10/23/2020

A California appeals court has affirmed a lower court decision requiring Uber and Lyft to “treat their California drivers as employees, providing them with the benefits and wages they are entitled to under state labor law.”...more

Employing an Updated Test for Independent Contractors – U.S. Department of Labor Proposes New Classification Regulation

Dechert LLP on 9/26/2020

Earlier this week, the U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) on September 22, 2020, proposed a regulation that would clarify how to determine whether a worker is an “employee” under the Fair Labor Standards Act (the “FLSA”) or...more

Hazard Pay During COVID-19: New Laws For Essential Workers

McManis Faulkner on 8/25/2020

This article follows an earlier article on hazard pay.... Hazard pay legislation is expanding nationwide at all levels of government. The growth in calls for hazard pay is the result of a shift in perception of the types of...more

Financial Daily Dose 8.20.2020 | Top Story: Apple Becomes First U.S. Company to Hit $2 Trillion Valuation Mark

Robins Kaplan LLP on 8/20/2020

Apple tipped the $2 trillion mark this week, the first U.S. company to reach that valuation milestone, doing so just 2 years after it first hit $1 trillion. That it’s done so in the middle of a pandemic only punctuates how...more

Seattle Mandates Temporary Premium Pay and Other Benefits for Certain Gig Economy Workers During Pandemic

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/4/2020

As we wrote about in more detail here, the ongoing coronavirus pandemic has brought increased attention to the legal and practical distinctions between employees (who are entitled to various compensation and employment...more

Financial Daily Dose 5.27.2020 | Top Story: AT&T Officially Enters Streaming Wars With Its Pricey HBO Max Offering

Robins Kaplan LLP on 5/28/2020

With HBO Max entering the fray today, we’ve got your latest dispatch from the streaming wars, including thoughts on Max’s ability to deliver on its promise to “crush” Netflix despite a very crowded playing field, a spendy...more

Pennsylvania Supreme Court Clarifies Independent Contractor Standard For Purposes of Unemployment Compensation Taxes

Troutman Pepper on 5/20/2020

Q. What is the standard for determining whether an individual is an independent contractor under Pennsylvania’s unemployment compensation law? ...more

Financial Daily Dose 3.13.2020 | Top Story: COVID-19 Fears Push Wall Street to Worst Losses Since Black Monday

Robins Kaplan LLP on 3/13/2020

It’s been a week or so, and we’re running out of ways to say that this is bad. But it certainly is. Your bear market stats for the day: the biggest daily drop by percentage for both the S&P 500 and the Dow Jones Industrial...more

AB 5: The Aftermath of California’s Experiment to Eliminate Independent Contractors Offers a Cautionary Tale for Other States

Littler on 3/10/2020

Since its enactment last fall, California’s AB 5—legislation adopting the so-called “ABC test” for purposes of determining whether a worker is an independent contractor or statutory employee—has dominated not only the legal...more

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