Tech companies shouldn’t be free to abuse their workforce without real government oversight. But that is exactly what is happening
Two days before May Day, the Trump administration quietly punished the American worker. In a ruling lost in the din of the Mueller report and the 2020 inanity, Trump’s labor department determined that an unidentified company’s workers were contractors and not employees – a decision that could free tech behemoths everywhere to further exploit the people who help generate their titanic value.
The Trump administration ruled that the company, which apparently pays workers to clean residences, did not have to offer the federal minimum wage or overtime, or pay a share of social security taxes. Though the judgment applies only to this single company, it signals the labor department under Alexander Acosta will give so-called gig companies carte blanche to deny their workers any semblance of benefits.
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