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A new app-based service offering housekeepers for just $1 an hour has ignited a consumer and worker frenzy across India, but the explosive demand is colliding with the country's severe and persistent crisis of women's safety. The platform's rock-bottom pricing has unlocked a massive, previously untapped market for dome...
DoorDash is moving a core operational function—worker compensation—onto a blockchain. The delivery giant will begin paying its global network of 'Dashers' in stablecoins, leveraging Stripe's newly launched Tempo blockchain for payments. This move directly targets the complex, costly, and slow process of cross-border pa...
A group of nine users of a Japanese 'spot work' app has filed a lawsuit against the service, alleging a pattern of exploitative cancellations that left them without promised work and pay. The core of the claim is that, despite having their applications formally accepted by employers on the platform, the users had their...