Gig Economy

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Finance

Italy's delivery riders keep winning in court but losing on the streets

By Anna Uras and Emilio Parodi MILAN, Feb 26 (Reuters) - Years of court rulings against multinationa...

26th February, 2026

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Finance

Deliveroo's Italian arm placed under supervision over alleged labour exploitation

By Emilio Parodi MILAN, Feb 25 (Reuters) - Milan prosecutors have placed the Italian arm of food del...

25th February, 2026

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Finance

Judge orders Glovo's Italian food delivery arm to 'regularise' its workers

MILAN, Feb 19 (Reuters) - An Italian judge has ordered the local arm of Spanish food delivery servic...

19th February, 2026

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Business

Embrace Best Practices for Building Gig Marketplace Payments Now

By Akshay Rawat The gig economy thrives on flexibility. For platform creators, however, building a s...

8th August, 2024

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Business

70% of UK Gig Workers are Denied Access to Financial Services – a catalyst for change

By Ali Hamriti, CEO and Co-Founder at Rollee Independent workers are a swiftly growing group of empl...

20th March, 2023

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Top Stories

Uber, Lyft slump as U.S. proposal on workers a potential blow to gig economy

(Reuters) – Shares of Uber Inc, Lyft Inc and Doordash Inc fell about 10% on Tuesday on fears that a...

11th October, 2022

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Business

Should you be self-employed? Today’s gig economy says yes.

By: William Ellermeyer, founder, Ellermeyer Connect Over the past 10 years we have seen the emergenc...

5th October, 2022

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Deliveroo’s UK riders win collective bargaining rights under union deal

(Reuters) – Deliveroo said on Thursday it has signed an agreement with trade union GMB to give the f...

12th May, 2022

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Uber drivers are employees, not contractors, says Dutch court

By Anthony Deutsch and Toby Sterling AMSTERDAM (Reuters) -Uber drivers are employees, not contractor...

14th September, 2021

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Business

Why Recruiters Need to Embrace the Gig Economy

Over the last few years, we’ve seen a substantial rise in what’s become known as “gigging”. The gove...

30th August, 2018