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Opinion: What rights and protections do gig workers have?

Por: MarketWatch Politics January 10, 2023

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Micha Kaufman, CEO of freelance services marketplace Fiverr, talks to MarketWatch about the growing shift to hybrid work models amid the Great Resignation. These widely diverging views may be partly due to the   of what constitutes “gig work” and the resulting difficulties in measuring its prevalence. As an academic who has studied workplace laws for decades and ran  that enforces workplace protections during the Obama administration, I... + full article



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