sharing economy
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Massachusetts’ Supreme Court Just Dealt a Major Blow To Gig Work Companies
Gig work companies were stymied this week in their quest to upend traditional worker classifications.
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In 2021, Gig Workers Were Forced to Endure ‘Unprecedented Surveillance’
Pa Edrissa Manjang, an Uber driver in the UK, spent a year of his life working for the ride-hailing company before he was abruptly fired by an algorithm. “It wasn’t good at all,” Manjang said in an interview with Worker Info Exchange. “It felt like most of the time you were dealing with robots.”
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Uber To Pay Out $26 Million After Promising Drivers ‘Exaggerated’ Wages
On Thursday, Uber agreed to pay the US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) $US20 million ($26 million) over claims it misled prospective drivers, recruiting them with ads that inflated typical earnings and mischaracterised the terms of its vehicle financing program.
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Airbnb Bans Racist Host For Being Very Racist
Amid growing accusations of racism, Airbnb has permanently banned a North Carolina host who cancelled a black guest’s reservation and called her racist slurs. The ban is Airbnb’s attempt to do damage control at a time when social-media campaigns, personal accounts and even a Harvard research paper claim that the site is a hotbed of…