December 18, 2024
According to Lindsey Cameron, an assistant professor of management at the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania, workers who have full-time jobs may feel the effects of changes to their part-time gigs.
A major selling point for workers in the gig economy has been its flexibility, even after some workers found their take-home pay to be less than in previous years.
However, it is difficult to replicate the good parts of the concert elsewhere.
By: Business Insider:some, like Colorado resident Aaron Lavender, a former teacher, have returned to using the delivery vehicle as an add-on secure floor jobs as opposed to using gig work as their main source of income.
Although his income as a gig economy driver has declined, few jobs, he said, have the advantages of gig work, such as instant pay and a low barrier to entry, such as driving for platforms like Uber and Lyft.
Many drivers, like Lavender, are part-time, Uber said Business Insider: that 73% of its drivers work less than 30 hours a week.
However, according to Lindsey Cameron, assistant professor of management at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business, even workers who have full-time jobs can feel the effects of changes to their part-time gigs.
“Most people depend on it financially,” Cameron said, referring to the gig driving. “Maybe it’s to pay their water or child support, or their kid comes home from college and runs the electric bill.”
According to NerdWallet, there currently is one state (California) and two cities (Seattle and New York) gave drivers the same minimum wage protections like other workers.
A second New York law that was set to raise the minimum wage for delivery drivers to $17.96 was put on hold after lawsuits from Doordash, Uber and Grubhub.
Concert workers are also increasingly receptive to unionization efforts, in part because of a 2023 of the National Labor Relations Boardwhich made it easier for workers like Uber and Lyft drivers, construction workers, home health aides and strippers to form a union.
By: The Washington Postruling workers whose employers had previously tried to argue were independent contractors and not employees, which precluded them from joining a union.
“This case and the independent contractor standard affect the quality of work for many workers in the United States,” said Brian Chen, director of policy at Data & Society. Post. “When workers are misclassified under the National Labor Relations Act, it deprives them of the collective bargaining opportunities we know improve job quality, wages, and racial income and wealth gaps.”
David Hill, vice president of the National Union of Writers, said Forbes: Working conditions for gig workers are often dangerous despite the promise of flexibility offered by gig work.
“I’m pessimistic that many unions are willing to help gig workers right now because they don’t know how to overcome the barriers to organizing, or they don’t want to put in the resources and effort it would take to actually win against these big tech companies that are working.” them,” Hill said. “I think it’s going to take a union willing to invest millions of dollars, hire an army of organizers and put together a 10-year plan to win. not to mention all the legal and strategic corporate campaigning that will be necessary to continue organizing the rank and file.”
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