6
Read Time: Min
More and more Americans are eschewing traditional employment in favor of temporary, part-time gigs.By the year 2020, 43 percent of the US workforce is expected to be made up of “freelancers” in some capacity. There are already 53 million today, or over a third of the workforce is freelancers currently.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
By the year 2020, 43 percent of the US workforce is expected to be made up of “freelancers” in some capacity (there are already 53 million today, or over a third of the workforce). More and more Americans are eschewing traditional employment in favor of temporary, part-time gigs -- hence the name “the gig economy”.So, what is causing this significant change in the way people make a living? In a word: control. People want control over what they do for a living, when they do it, where it is accomplished and how much they get paid for it.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
Human resources (HR) professionals often view various HR functions through a larger employee-lifecycle-management lens. This entails looking at the management of employees from the time they are first recruited to the time they leave the organization.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
In a market hungry for talent, competition for top-notch candidates is fierce. In order to recruit stellar contenders, recruiters and HR managers must first know how to communicate effectively with them. First impressions are important. If the initial communication with an applicant isn’t satisfactory, it can hurt their overall candidate experience with your company.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
Recently, the California Supreme Court issued its decision in Dynamex Operations West, Inc. v. Superior Court (Lee), adopting a very broad view of the workers who will be deemed “employees” as opposed to “independent contractors” for purposes of claims alleging violations of California’s Wage Orders.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
This article discusses federal employee probationary rights. Probationary employee rights can be a confusing subject for most federal employees. The rights that these types of employees have can also be unclear or not fully explained by federal agencies to employees.This article hopes to clear this area of law up for federal employees that may be in their probationary status.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
In what will be considered a victory for employers, the justices issued a 5-4 split ruling in late May, holding that agreements requiring individual arbitration must be enforced, giving employers the green light to ask employees to enter into contracts that waive their rights to bring class or collective action employment claims in court.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) generally establishes mandatory minimum wage and maximum hour requirements for most employees in the United States. Generally, an individual is an employee under the FLSA if an employer permits the individual to work in the interest of the employer.
$authorProfileLink
6
Read Time: Min
With the rise of the gig economy and a wider swathe of Americans defining work on their own terms, the assumption of slow payments isn’t as safe as it once was. Gig workers—the independent contractor crowd—are on a healthy growth curve. According to the PYMNTS Gig Economy Index, “Gig economy workers are projected to account for more than $677 billion of total U.S. income in 2017.”
$authorProfileLink
Cover Article
