‘Secret civil justice undermines employee rights’

“A story investigated by ProPublica and featured on Planet Money highlights the problem of secret justice in perpetuating the willful abuse of at-home gig workers. I expected that ‘Call Center Call Out’, reported by Planet Money’s Amanda Aronczyk and ProPublica’s Ariana Tobin, Ken Armstrong, and Justin Elliott, based on the ProPublica story, would be a sad and frustrating tale of work-from-home gig economy labor being exploited, principally by the misclassification of employees as independent contractors to reap savings in compensation, work conditions, and employee benefits …” (more)

[Richard Peltz-Steele, The Savory Tort, 13 October]

First posted 2020-10-16 05:31:51

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