Will The Democrats Roll Back The Gig Economy?

When is a freelancer really an employee and not a contractor? Are 'hybrid workers' just a way to sidestep labor laws? What's the plan, Joe?

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In Biden Should Help Protect Uber and Lyft Drivers, Veena Dubal and Juliet Schor report on the Albertsons grocery store chain, which this month opted to replace its staff delivery drivers with Doordash gig workers, and who will lack many of the labor protections employees have:

When the gig economy sprang up during the Obam…