The future of the UK trade union movement has long been a matter for concern. Trade union membership has been stagnating for the last 30 years and structural changes in the UK economy have led to trade union density in the private sector dropping below 14 per cent. The most worrying aspect of this decline […]
Month: July 2016
The ride-sharing service Uber is set to launch in the Treasure State early August.As part of a multiple town tour, officials held a Q&A in Billings on Monday with dozens attending at the Northern Hotel. Source: Uber set to launch in Montana, looking for drivers – KPAX.com | Continuous News | Missoula & Western Montana
Take Eat Easy, a Brussels-based food-delivery startup, has announced it will be shutting down, citing difficulties securing Series C investment. According to a blog post published by one of the founders, the company began the process of pitching investors for the round in October 2015, but after 114 rejections and one term sheet that fell […]
Nestled in a valley between the two tailing ends of the Appalachian foothills, the southern city of Birmingham, Ala. seems an unlikely base of operations for a rival to San Francisco’s multi-billion dollar food delivery behemoth Instacart. But the two-year-old startup Shipt is doing exactly that, tackling not only its far better funded San Francisco-based […]
“Call Commerce: A $1 Trillion Economic Engine” is a BIA/Kelsey Industry Watch report. Free download of the report, courtesy of Marchex, is available at: http://bit.ly/ReserveCallCommerceRpt. Source: BIA/Kelsey Estimates Click-to-Call Influences More Than $1 Trillion in U.S. Consumer Spending
This is Part 1 of our interview with Kim Moody. Watch for Part 2, coming next week. —Eds. Labor Notes: We read a lot about the “gig economy,” where workers cycle through multiple jobs using app-based companies like Uber, TaskRabbit [for everyday tasks such as cleaning or moving], and Mechanical Turk [for online tasks such […]
It may be that ShiftPixy has unique know-how and capabilities to take on the ACA compliance burden within the market segment it is addressing; however, it is not quite clear how this is a differentiator. Admittedly, though, we may be missing something here. Source: ShiftPixy Wants to Slay the Compliance-Risk Dragon
As a result of the demise of the employer-provided pension plan and the rise of participant-directed savings plans, workers have already felt the movement away from the paternalistic approach to retirement benefits. This development has not been without controversy, as exemplified by the debates regarding participant savings rates, education regarding investments and fee transparency, and […]
On demand healthcare is so hot right now. As a Rock Health report last November pointed out, funding for such services has increased over the years with a total of $692 million since 2011. Earlier this year, an Accenture report estimated the on-demand healthcare product investment would explode to more than $1 billion in 2017 […]
The giants of the on-demand economy took to the Democratic National Convention on Tuesday, making the case that their users were crucial to the 2016 election.Airbnb’s policy chief, Chris Lehane, presented polling data on the on-demand economy, accompanied at the event by Uber’s David Plouffe. “I think my big takeaway from the data that’s been […]