Employers that hire gig workers are now legally required to carry out employment checks, the Home Office announced on Sunday (30 March).

The distinction between a worker and a self-employed contractor can sometimes be difficult to make out, but that is no excuse for failing to uphold your workers’ rights.

As we reach the end of the year, our '12 Days of Christmas'-style countdown to the last working day of the year rounds up key events from 2024.

Around 15,000 Bolt drivers won a tribunal to be classified as workers rather than self-employed, BBC News reported on 11 November. 

A Netherlands-based gig economy firm has been criticised after it claimed that its contractors were exempt from new tipping laws in the UK, the Guardian reported on 3 November.

As employers' use of flexible contracts is on the rise, we asked HR how they can improve work for zero-hours and gig workers.

A group of drivers have brought legal action against Amazon and one of its subcontractors, a logistics firm called One Motion. The drivers claim that they have not been paid in full for work they were...

Creative writing professors who were employed as gig workers by Oxford University should have had employee status, a tribunal has ruled.

Riders hired by Deliveroo do not have an employment relationship with the food delivery giant and cannot be represented by a trade union, the Supreme Court has ruled.

It’s very easy to pick holes in the gig economy. Many gig workers experience unstable work, long hours, below-average pay and have little to no legal protection.

As with all things to do with AI, algorithmic or 'algorithmically personalised' wages is a hot topic.

Half (52%) of UK gig economy workers earn below minimum wage, according to a study by the University of Bristol.