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Latest Stories (9)
Who gets "deactivated"?
Mar 29, 2021
App-based gig workers for Amazon, Uber, Lyft and more. Here's how it works.
What is the "Save America's Pastime Act"?
Mar 17, 2021
It's the carveout that allows minor league baseball to avoid minimum wage laws — and it's one of many.
What does it mean to be paid a "piece rate"?
Mar 3, 2021
Legally, anyone who’s paid a piece rate must still make at least minimum wage. And companies are expected to have done the calculation.
What's a "core competence"?
Feb 24, 2021
One paper from 1990 changed business — and this thing we call employment — as we know it.
What's a "nonemployee"?
Jan 29, 2021
Well, not an employee, for starters. But to really understand the word and its implications, we have to look back to 19th-century labor law.