July 8, 2015

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Sinking unemployment numbers, rising job openings and other factors portend rising costs for contingent workforce programs.

Bill Rate Increases? Lower unemployment, regulations herald higher costs for talent

8 July 2015

Are you ready to pay more for your contingent workforce? Tacking onto the inevitability of increases due to the ACA mandates, shrinking unemployment rates put workers in a better position to command higher rates.


Crowdsourcing supplier settles class action lawsuit

8 July 2015

CrowdFlower agreed to pay $585,507 to settle a class action lawsuit brought by crowdsourced workers who claim they were misclassified as independent contractors and paid less than the legal minimum wage.


New penalties set for foreign temp worker violations in Canada

8 July 2015

Hopes for relaxed rules in Canada’s Temporary Foreign Worker program were quickly dashed when Canadian officials announced stiffer penalties for noncompliance.


Another gig economy firm to categorize its workers as employees, not contractors

8 July 2015

Gig economy company Shyp announced in a recent blog it will reclassify its couriers as employees instead of independent contractors, following in the footsteps of Instacart.