New York City-based FinTech startup Clair has raised $4.5 million in seed funding to disrupt payday lending schemes and help gig workers and freelancers get...
California Assembly Bill 5 (AB5) — and its now famed (and feared) three-part test as to whether a worker could be classified as an independent...
For workers living paycheck to paycheck even before COVID-19, having their hours cut back due to the pandemic can stretch already tenuous financial situations to...
In a bid to add clarity around booming freelance markets, PYMNTS has reported on the U.S. Department of Labor recently offering guidelines and even “tests” that...
New tests may help companies (and regulators) determine who is an independent contractor — and who is not. To that end, a new proposal by...
The conventional wisdom may hold that creative types — musicians among them — are not the savviest of business mavens. Anecdotes abound, of course, in...
Fiverr International Ltd., an established player in the field of connecting businesses and freelancers, on Tuesday (Sept. 15) announced a new offering aimed at facilitating...
Labor Day 2020 has an unfortunate cloud hanging over it: a high U.S. unemployment rate, even as the nation engages in its annual celebration of...
Even before the pandemic upended the ways we live and work, the workforce itself was shifting, marked by the rapid expansion of the gig economy....