Tag: Gig Workers
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Denver gig staffing companies ordered to pay more than $1M for wage theft and sick leave violations
Two staffing companies misclassified hundreds of workers, resulting in them being paid less than minimum wage and causing them to miss out on overtime and sick pay, a new audit from Denver Labor revealed Monday. The two companies, Instawork and Gigpro, are temporary staffing agencies that placed workers such as bartenders, servers, dishwashers, general laborers…
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Two-month trend continues as Colorado new jobless claims down again
Facebook Twitter WhatsApp SMS Email Print Copy article link Save While the continued slide of new jobless claims stands as encouraging news, the 5,825 new regular claims filed for the week ending April 24 far outstrips the highest week of new filings in 2019, according to data released Thursday by the Colorado Department of Labor…
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State ready to take new claims from contract workers Feb. 22
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