July 8, 2015
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
July 8, 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
July 8, 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
July 8, 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
July 8, 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.
Web: Food processing plant contractor dies
July 8, 2015
A contract worker died Monday after an ammonia leak at Rich Products’ Ft. Erie, Ont., Canada, food processing facility. Two other workers — one also a contractor — were treated for non-life-threatening injuries, Buffalo News reports. The cause of the accident was not known at press time... More