Republicans want to give gig workers benefits. There’s a catch. | Vox

But unions strongly opposed these efforts. Labor groups have long fought against worker misclassification, where wrongly designating employees as contractors allows employers to sidestep payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, minimum wage laws and other obligations. Unions view codifying portable benefits largely as a way to keep misclassifying workers and therefore cut them off from core workplace protections, including the right to unionize…

https://www.vox.com/policy/421899/gig-economy-uber-lyft-independent-contractor-gig-unions-freelance 

 

Pandemic Unemployment Assistance program for freelancers has many loopholes - CBS News

The $2 trillion economic relief bill for workers affected by the coronavirus pandemic was intended to expand unemployment benefits for freelancers, "gig" workers and independent contractors — people who are typically excluded from applying for jobless aid. But the rules released last weekend leave many workers out in the cold, according to several left-leaning employment experts.....
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-pandemic-unemployment-assistance-program-for-freelancers-has-gaping-holes/

Republicans sacrifice Giuliani, Mulvaney and Sondland to save Trump, but facts are getting in the way - The Washington Post

House Republicans are now preparing to sacrifice poor Rudolph Giuliani to save President Trump. Their new argument is that Giuliani — along with acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney and Ambassador Gordon Sondland — were freelancing the organized campaign to extort Ukraine into carrying out Trump’s political bidding, and Trump had no input into it. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/11/08/republicans-are-throwing-giuliani-under-bus-theres-problem/