Gig Economy News For The Week Ending 7.3.2016

1. Hertz teams with Uber and Lyft to offer car rental programs for drivers (The Wall Street Journal, June 30, 2016)

2. What happens when we all become our own bosses (The Washington Post, July 1, 2016)

3. Gig economy workers injured on the job should get workers’ comp protections (Quartz June 24, 2016)

4. The U.S. department of labor tries to define the Gig Economy (The Wall Street Journal, June 27, 2016)

5. Ridesharing competition unimpeded by network effects is why Uber isn’t going to conquer the world (Bloomberg, June 29, 2016)

6. Airbnb suing the city of San Francisco over law it helped pass (New York Times, June 29, 2016)