New rules guarantee minimum wage and clearer pay for app-based workers, but advocates warn loopholes still leave many underpaid and unprotected ...

A new report indicates that there is an emerging disconnect among millennials, with 52 percent engaging in side hustles at ...

A new Senate hearing will focus on how to expand retirement benefits for independent and gig economy workers. Learn more.

An Instacart spokesperson called the legislation to expand the minimum pay laws to grocery delivery workers “unconscionable” and said the city’s numbers showed it would drive up grocery ...

David Coots of Gig Harbor, WA, pleads guilty to assault after sneaking abortion pills into his girlfriend. He was sentenced to 1 year and 1 day in prison.

SEATTLE (CN) — Since Jan. 1, companies with over 250 gig workers have had to abide by a Seattle ordinance intended to provide protections for app-based employees, but Uber and Instacart argued before ...

Drive Forward, a nonprofit trade industry association representing gig workers in Seattle, held a media event at Seattle City Hall last year to voice opposition against a minimum wage law for ...

Politics Why nail salons are being targeted in fights over gig worker laws by Jeanne Kuang • CalMatters July 8, 2025, 8:27 a.m.

California’s landmark labor law aims to make nail salon workers, predominantly Vietnamese women, full employees rather than contractors in an industry known for labor violations.

LL Cool and Jazmine Sullivan canceled their appearances at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in solidarity with the city workers who are on strike in Philly.

LL Cool and Jazmine Sullivan canceled their appearances at a Fourth of July festival in Philadelphia in solidarity with striking city workers.

Welcome to another episode of the Heartland Daily Podcast, where Ann Marie Sheber and healthcare economist Devon Herrick unpack this week’s biggest developments in health policy: 🔹 Prior ...