Tag: nontraditional workers

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Rob Peters during a trip East last summer. Rob Peters’ approach to retiring wasn’t much different from hitting the road in 1975 to help drive a college friend from New York to California. He didn’t really know where he was going. When he first laid eyes on California, he was captivated by its beauty, as…

Ride share driver with passenger in the back seat

I was very interested in the recent settlement in two class action lawsuits against Uber, because I had been reading a proposal from the Hamilton Center at Brookings for a new class of worker – “independent worker” – that falls between “employee”  and “ independent contractor.”   Employees give up control over their jobs in…