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2.7KGig EconomyGig Economy Could See Overhaul Under New California Bill
California lawmakers passed a controversial labor bill on Tuesday (Sept. 10) that could turn on-demand contract workers into full-fledged employees. App-based businesses...
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2.2KRegulationCalifornia Senate Could Rule On Gig Economy Law This Week
As early as this week, California’s state Senate will take up a measure that could forever change the future of the gig...
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3.9KGig EconomyNew Report: Why 84 Percent Of Paycheck-To-Paycheck Gig Workers Want Early Pay
A growing number of workers are turning to platforms like Uber, TaskRabbit and Upwork to earn extra money – or even to...
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3.1KInvestmentsSoftBank Plans To Lend Staffers $20B To Invest In Tech Fund
SoftBank is ready to lend up to $20 billion to its employees so they can buy stakes in a fund aimed to...
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4.6KSecurity & FraudCap One Employees Warned Of Security Issues Pre-Hack
Capital One employees raised red flags over security risks before the company suffered a massive data breach. According to a report in...
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4.1KRegulationCitigroup Fined $1.25M For Background Check Infractions
The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has fined Citigroup’s global markets business $1.25 million for not performing background checks on thousands of...
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3.3KGig EconomyGig Workers And The $178B Pay Advance Potential
Unlike the typical worker in the 9 to 5 cycle, gig workers often find themselves living paycheck to paycheck, because they must...
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3.4KeCommerceOpendoor Trims Employees And Perks
Opendoor, the startup that operates an online platform for buying and selling homes, “is reshuffling staff and scaling back on a time-honored...
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2.0KB2B PaymentsUK Contractor Payroll Reforms Reignite Employee Definition Debate
The rise of the gig worker has shaken up the talent pool, with some far-reaching consequences — particularly as it relates to...
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1.9KInvestmentsWagestream Raises $51M To Help Workers With Payday Gap
Wagestream, a U.K. startup, has raised $51 million (£40 million) to help U.K. workers who only get paid once a month but...
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2.2KInternationalMicrosoft To Launch $100M Development Center In Africa
Microsoft has announced plans to open its first development center in Africa. Over the next five years, the tech giant will spend...
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2.8KAmazonAmazon Offers Employees $10K To Start Delivery Businesses
Amazon is enticing its own employees to start package delivery businesses, announcing Monday (May 13) a new incentive that will provide them...
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4.1KRidesharingNY Uber Drivers To Strike Ahead Of IPO
Shortly ahead of Uber’s initial public offering, drivers of the company in New York plan on going on strike. According to a...
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2.0KGig EconomyLabor Department Ruling Classifies Gig Workers As Contractors
Gig economy companies Uber and Lyft just got support from the Labor Department, which ruled a company’s workers who clean homes don’t...
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6.4KLegalZillow Sues Competitor Compass Over IP Theft
Zillow has filed two lawsuits against Compass, accusing its rival of stealing Seattle-based Zillow’s intellectual property, as well as hiring employees who violated...
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6.7KMatchmakersCan Platforms And Payments Solve Restaurants’ 73 Percent Turnover Problem?
Good waiters are hard to find. According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, they are even harder to keep, as the restaurant worker...
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5.2KSecurity & FraudBritish Airways Employees Say Call Center Data Not Secure
Current and former staff at British Airways, the U.K. airliner, told The Financial Times this weekend that data has been handled insecurely...
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6.1KPartnerships / AcquisitionsNCR Expands Hospitality Reach With BEC Buy
NCR announced late last week the acquisition of BEC, a provider of hospitality point-of-sale (POS) technology based in Denver. In a press release, NCR...
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6.9KAppleApple’s Retail Head Ahrendts Steps Down
Apple announced that its retail chief, Angela Ahrendts, is stepping down, while Deirdre O’Brien is taking on an expanded role as senior vice...
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4.2KB2B PaymentsPrismHR Links Employees To On-Demand Wages Via FinFit
Employee financial wellness company FinFit is integrating its technology into human resource management platform PrismHR, the firms announced on Thursday (Jan. 31)....
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3.4KLegalMunchery Sued By Ex-Employees Over Shutdown
A new class-action lawsuit wants failed meal delivery company Munchery to pay its former employees 60 days’ worth of back wages. The...
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13.7KPayment Methods2019: The Year Of Instant Payments
Here’s a 2019 prediction that we guarantee will come true: There will be no human being or business adamantly hoping to be...
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10.7KRegulationMotus On Mapping Mileage Reimbursement
Tax season looms. Firms would do well to examine the latest standard mileage rates published by the IRS — and more. Motus’ Chief...
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2.7KAmazonAmazon Workers In NYC Warehouses Want To Unionize
A group of workers at Amazon’s Staten Island warehouse want to unionize, according to a report by Bloomberg. The news is another...
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5.1KB2B PaymentsInsurTech Oyster Launches Workers’ Comp Service In California
A new insurance technology (InsurTech) company is rolling out its workers’ compensation solution in California. Insurance Journal reported late last week that...
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5.7KAmazonAmazon To Roll Out PillPack Service To Employees
News of Amazon‘s acquisition of online pharmacy startup PillPack have had analysts assuming the eCommerce conglomerate is ready to introduce an online pharmacy...
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3.9KAmazonWhat’s Next For Real Estate In Amazon’s HQ2 Cities?
Build it and they will come — in this case, times two. Apologies for the cliché (some of us miss baseball already),...
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5.8KBusinessLyft, Uber, Amazon: Employees’ Top Expense
Lyft cracked the Top 10 of most frequently expensed U.S. business costs for the first time, reaching number six. According to data...
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3.9KRetailThe Retail Holiday Hiring Headache
By some accounts, the 2018 holiday season is going to be a bang-up year for retailers. Unemployment is down and consumer confidence...
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3.1KAmazonAmazon Investigates Claims That Employees Sell Data
eCommerce giant Amazon is looking into allegations that employees are offering merchants internal data and confidential information that can help them boost...
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7.7KPayments InnovationHow To Fix Healthcare Payments
Back in the good old days of healthcare, the employer paid for all (or most) of the freight, and the out-of-pockets for...
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5.6KRetailChanges At Whole Foods Post Amazon Buy Rankles Workers, Suppliers
One year in, the changes at Whole Foods Market, post the acquisition by Amazon, are rankling some of the grocery giant’s employees...
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4.8KB2B PaymentsOne-Third Of Employers Use Decade-Old Payroll Technology
A new survey has found that one-third of employers are using payroll technology that is at least 10 years old. The “Evolution of...
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6.8KAmazonYou Could Do Worse Than Quit A Warehouse Job At Amazon
Amazon puts significant effort toward loyalty, as shown recently by its push to extend Prime discounts to Whole Foods shoppers, a move...
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6.0KAmazonAmazon Launches Home Cleaning Service
Amazon has been hiring house cleaners in Seattle as direct employees in an effort to boost its home services marketplace. The new...
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4.8KToday In DataFighting Off Unforced Errors
Yogi Berra, explaining a loss, once told reporters the problem was, “We made too many wrong mistakes.” We’d laugh, but in payments...
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8.3KB2B PaymentsJustworks Secures $40 Million For Payroll, HR Solutions
Justworks, a U.S.-based B2B FinTech, has raised $40 million in venture capital, according to TechCrunch reports on Tuesday (March 6). The company offers...
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5.2KGig EconomyGig Workforce Swells As Companies Shed Headcount
Long gone are the days when Ford, J.C. Penney and General Electric were the largest U.S. employers. A new analysis shows that...
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4.3KB2B PaymentsAustralia’s Late SMB Payments Fight Starts Within Government Walls
As Australian policymakers explore how to combat late B2B invoice payments to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs), the government is beginning to...
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7.2KB2B PaymentsWhy The Switch To Electronic Payments Isn’t Enough To Combat Employee Fraud
In Georgia, one Mohawk Industries employee allegedly scammed the company out of $766,000. In New York, a worker at Chevron Phillips Chemical Co....
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6.0KSecurity & FraudHow FIs Can Train Human And AI Employees To Work Together
Whether in banking, security, or retail, there is a clear trend regarding artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning: they’re on the rise,...
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6.2KB2B PaymentsWith Labor Laws In Flux, Here’s How Americans Get Paid Today
The payroll landscape is in flux in the U.S., and not just because FinTech is reshaping the way employees get paid. Regulators,...
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10.2KPayments InnovationThree Square Market To Implant RFID Chips In Employees
Three Square Market (32M) announced news on Monday (July 24) that it is offering the ability for its employees to be implanted...
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6.0KRetaileCommerce Warehouse Labor Costs On The Rise
With the amount of online shopping orders skyrocketing over the past few years, it’s being reported that many eCommerce warehouses are having...
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2.5KChatbotsChatbot Tracker: Facebook Instant Games’ Productivity Impact
Fewer applications seems to be Facebook‘s new theme as we move forward in the chatbot arena. Over the course of the past...
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4.5KMobile CommerceUber Seeing Employees Look To Leave Over Culture Fit Issues
Uber employees may be losing faith in the startup’s executives, with The Financial Times reporting that recruiters in the Bay Area, as well as executives at...
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2.5KSecurity & FraudMost Employees Lack Awareness To Stop Preventable Cyberattacks
MediaPro, a security training vendor, found in a new a survey that 88 percent of employees lack the awareness to stop preventable...
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Facebook At Work, Soon To Roll Out?
Many employers block Facebook at the workplace. Facebook is looking to change that by launching a new paid subscription model for employers...
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Deliveroo Wants To Bring Your Employees Lunch
After raising $275 million this summer, London-based Deliveroo is taking a leap to take over the higher-end restaurant and food delivery industry...
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4.9KSecurity & FraudSage Employee Detained On Suspicion Of Defrauding Company
A Sage Group employee was arrested in London on Wednesday (Aug. 17) on suspicion that she conspired to defraud the software company...
