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A baby-boomer delivery driver says the work is becoming harder to get and cautions it's not sustainable long term.

All signs point to e-commerce giant Amazon planning an expansion into Traverse City – what would be the company’s first Michigan location no...

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has added two cases to its docket.

In January, residents of Chicago's 37th Ward and a coalition of community groups gathered in the cold to protest outside a planned Amazon warehouse in the city's West Humboldt Park neighborhood. Demonstrators held signs demanding equality in hiring. They expressed frustration about being excluded from meetings on the project, and called for transparency from the local alderman and the ...

The app told her to deliver to the porch. Jennifer Anderson, a 43-year-old gig worker for Amazon Flex and a single mother, had brought packages to the house…

The Virginia Court of Appeals ruled Amazon Flex misclassified a driver as an independent contractor and must pay unemployment taxes for similarly situated workers.

The online retail giant does its best to insulate itself from the consequences of incidents on the roads.

Amazon considers its ‘Flex drivers’ independent contractors – meaning they’re not promised worker’s compensation after a bite

Drivers who spoke to Motherboard described not being allowed to carry defensive spray and inadequate training.

Opinion writer Susan Campbell says the main beneficiaries of the gig economy are not the freelancers and contractors who do the work. It's the corporations that reap the rewards of getting the same amount of work from people for less money and no fringe benefits.