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Re:Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY la... by Cthulhu_ on Friday July 20, 2018 @11:33AM (#17575816)
Are gig economy people included in that figure? It seems like a category on its own, contract workers (the way I see it) still get to work full-time instead of 'whatever the market demands'.
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Re:Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY la... by slededit on Friday July 20, 2018 @11:34AM (#17575829)
Uber drivers are contract workers (except in NY I guess). Yes they are included. A month ago we didn't have post Uber data. Now we do.
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Re:Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY la... by mbesto on Friday July 20, 2018 @11:39AM (#17575890)
Source please?
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Re:Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY la... by slededit on Friday July 20, 2018 @11:40AM (#17575909)
https://work.qz.com/1296208/gig-economy-data-from-the-bls-th...
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Re:Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY la... by mbesto on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:03PM (#17576161)
> the US federal government will release data showing how many workers rely on non-traditional work arrangements

That article just says "we'll find out soon"...

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Re:Uber drivers “employees” for unemployment purposes, NY la... by slededit on Friday July 20, 2018 @12:13PM (#17576291)
I assumed you wanted analysis connecting the report to Uber. The actual data is publicly available on the BLS website.

I'm all for greater contract worker protections. People seem to think this is some value judgement on that issue. there are valid arguments that some aspects aren't accounted for in this report. But the perception I had was that the gig economy was becoming a sizeable portion of the workforce. Were it true we'd expect it to spill over in BLS numbers regardless of their deficiencies.

Last month we had no data so that's excusable. But now that we do it should be talked about.

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