How to Use gig worker in a Sentence

gig worker

noun

• All said, the catch-up payments stand to be a huge boon to gig workers and delivery drivers throughout the state.
  — Brian Merchant, Los Angeles Times, 1 June 2023
• While her daughter was ill last year, Curtis, the Baby Jack’s gig worker in Texas, was putting in 12-hour days, six days a week.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• Under the law, companies must pay gig workers at least $17.96 an hour.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 29 Sep. 2023
• Research shows that gig workers tend to work in the service industry.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 2 May 2023
• As the gig workers bill neared a critical vote, some supporters showed up to his house, unannounced.
  — Nick Coltrain, The Denver Post, 13 Jan. 2024
• Seattle has granted permanent sick and safe leave for gig workers.
  — Stephanie Mlot, PCMAG, 30 Mar. 2023
• But most gig workers in Seattle became entitled to paid sick leave and safe time under a first-in-the-nation law enacted there in March.
  — Steve Karnowski, Fortune, 26 May 2023
• The appeals court ruling did strike down a provision of Prop 22 that limits the ability of gig workers to join unions, but the ruling was still broadly seen as a win for Uber and Lyft.
  — Reuters, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• How much will this affect gig workers in their fight for better pay, benefits, and work conditions?
  — Harold Maass, The Week, 15 June 2023
• But workplace experts say the number of gig workers is growing, and and their impact is being felt throughout the economy.
  — Samantha Delouya, CNN, 24 July 2023
• Some eateries also allow remote gig workers to serve customers at kiosks inside the restaurants as well.
  — Paul Davidson, USA TODAY, 25 July 2023
• And with it, so are the digital labor platforms used by many AI companies to employ human gig workers.
  — Time, 20 July 2023
• But workplace experts say the number of gig workers is growing, and their impact is being felt throughout the economy.
  — Nicole Goodkind, CNN, 25 July 2023
• Many gig workers hold traditional jobs in the retail and restaurant sectors.
  — Chloe Berger, Fortune, 17 Oct. 2023
• Like many people in the restaurant industry, gig workers like Uber and DoorDash drivers rely on tips to make a living.
  — Gabriella Ybarra, San Antonio Express-News, 10 May 2023
• Many of the gig workers had already connected on other series and came prepared with picnic blankets.
  — Emily St. Martin, Los Angeles Times, 29 Nov. 2023
• Since Cash App Taxes is free, gig workers and very small businesses with limited budgets might be served well by it, however.
  — PCMAG, 5 Feb. 2024
• California’s long-running fight over the status of gig workers is going national this week.
  — Shira Stein, San Francisco Chronicle, 19 Apr. 2023
• The immediate fallout has been new restrictions that hamper gig workers’ ability to charge their two-wheeled EVs.
  — IEEE Spectrum, 4 Dec. 2023
• Freelancers, gig workers and side hustlers qualify for many small business credit cards that can be a great addition to your personal card.
  — Gerri Detweiler, wsj.com, 10 Oct. 2023
• According to Khosrowshahi, the answer is that the company has neglected its gig workers and worried too much about customers.
  — Paige McGlauflin, Fortune, 11 Sep. 2023
• As your young child becomes a little more self-sufficient, consider taking on a project (paid or unpaid) as a consultant/gig worker.
  — Johnny C. Taylor Jr., USA TODAY, 14 Mar. 2023
• In April, Mayor Bruce Harrell signed another law providing paid sick leave to gig workers at companies with more than 250 workers.
  — Kimmy Yam, NBC News, 12 June 2023
• But the initiative might appear hollow to riders who are going on strike as the group campaigns to avoid millions of gig workers from being recognized as employees.
  — Ryan Hogg, Fortune Europe, 18 Mar. 2024
• Freelancers, gig workers, small businesses — or anyone with a side job — have always been obligated to track and report income to the I.R.S. when their profits exceed $400.
  — Tara Siegel Bernard, New York Times, 2 Mar. 2024
• Such an arrangement might be attractive to gig workers, compared with the competition, but might still strike labor advocates as a net loss.
  — Lauren Hilgers, New York Times, 13 Apr. 2023
• The court, however, found that the provision of Prop 22 limiting the ability of gig workers to join unions and engage in collective bargaining was invalid and severed it from the rest of the ballot measure.
  — Reuters, CNN, 13 Mar. 2023
• DoorDash, the food delivery service popularly used among gig workers, is allowing Dashers to earn their pay by the hour.
  — USA TODAY, 2 July 2023
• Her memories serve as an antidote to the alienation that gig workers can feel when they are treated as interchangeable and expected to be constantly on call.
  — Bekah Waalkes, The Atlantic, 17 Nov. 2023
• These tasks are often outsourced to gig workers, via online crowdsourcing platforms such as Toloka, which was where Hassan started his career.
  — WIRED, 15 Nov. 2023

Last Updated: 27 Jun 2024