If your business model depends on workers showing up daily, they're employees in everything but name. Companies shouldn't dodge healthcare and basic protections through legal gymnastics.
Yes. If a company controls the work, sets the pay, and profits from the labor, it should provide benefits instead of dumping risk onto workers.
Gig apps built billion-dollar empires by treating full-time workers like disposable freelancers. If they control your income, they owe you benefits.
Gig workers choose contractor freedom over employee perks鈥攏o company owes benefits to people who reject the full-time deal.