Small Business Labs
JANUARY 7, 2016
These are good times for the temporary staffing industry. As the American Staffing Association chart below shows, the industry has been booming since the steep declines caused by the Great Recession. 2015 was another record setting year and pretty much everyone in the staffing industry is predicting good times ahead.
Small Business Labs
JANUARY 7, 2020
Translators and interpreters, another industry with a lot of independent workers, are also looking to the courts for help as they lose work. We expect to see many more examples of the unintended consequences of AB5 - and related legal actions - in the coming weeks and months.
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Small Business Labs
MAY 17, 2017
Key quote: "Three-quarters of law firms with more than 250 lawyers use contract attorneys, says a 2016 report from legal consultancy Altman Weil." Lawyers look at the current market, where law school graduates outnumber legal jobs, and see "a bidding war where they don't have too much leverage."
Small Business Labs
OCTOBER 7, 2019
This, of course, means Uber will not have to deal with the employee classification or other legal issues they faces in their ride hailing business. According to the Staffing Industry Analysts, the global staffing industry generated $490 billion in revenue in 2018. But the market is also huge. According
Small Business Labs
FEBRUARY 4, 2019
But B2B specialty platform targeting industry niches (like oilfield services) and/or professions (like legal or accounting) are rapidly growing in number, scope and scale. Rig Up's gig marketplace helps oilfield services firms find and hire workers quickly while tracking contractor compliance and minimizing administrative work.
Small Business Labs
AUGUST 15, 2019
WeWork released its S-1 this week, which is the legal document a company files prior to going public. WeWork going public is a bit of a watershed moment for the coworking industry. It's the first of the new wave of coworking spaces to do so.
Small Business Labs
SEPTEMBER 24, 2019
This is a more stringent set of rules than was in place prior to AB5 (for those interested in legal geekery, the prior rules are referred to as the Borello factors ). Also, many industries and professions are still clamoring for exemptions. Do work that is “outside the usual course of the hiring entity’s business”; and. Fine artists.
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