The Economic Times:
A survey of ~4,000 Indian gig workers on Swiggy, Zomato, Uber, Amazon, and others: 42% say their income is flat, 47% have no insurance, and 51% can’t save money — Gig workers in India are young, financially stressed, and largely uninsured, according to a new report.
Bloomberg:
Roblox and Discord are accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social media watchdog group — Roblox Corp. and Discord Inc. were accused of enabling adult men to sexually and financially exploit a California girl in a lawsuit filed by a social-media watchdog group.
Varsha Bansal / Rest of World:
How India’s gig workers, tired of algorithms dictating their lives, are using Telegram to exchange cheap hacks on how to game the platforms to their advantage — Tired of the obscurity around black box algorithms that dictate their lives, India’s gig workers are coming up with jugaads to game the system.
Rebecca Bellan / TechCrunch:
Uber reaches a $10M settlement with the City of Chicago for listing restaurants in Uber Eats and Postmates without consent and charging excess commissions — Uber has agreed to a $10 million settlement with the City of Chicago for listing local restaurants in the Uber Eats …
Kyle Wiggers / TechCrunch:
Arizona-based Qwick, an on-demand staffing service that matches gig workers with hospitality jobs, raised a $40M Series B, bringing its total funding to $69.1M — Leisure and hospitality workers are quitting at the highest rates of any industry. About 1 million left the workforce in November 2021 alone …
Noam Scheiber / New York Times:
The Labor Department releases a nonbinding proposal to classify US gig workers as employees and not independent contractors — A proposed rule, long awaited by labor activists, would make it harder for companies to classify workers as independent contractors.
Ana Lucía Murillo / Washington, D.C. Business Journal:
DC-based Pie Insurance, which uses data and analytics to help SMBs get insurance digitally, raised a $315M Series D, bringing its total funding to $615M+ — Pie Insurance has raised yet another staggering round of funding to create new lines of business for the tech-enabled insurance firm.
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