Gig workers insurance

Point Pickup launches GigPoint rewards app

Point Pickup launches a new app, GigPoint, that will help gig workers manage their finances and earn rewards

Point Pickup, the tech-enabled last-mile delivery provider, wants to bring the care economy to the gig economy. The Stamford, Connecticut-based company on Thursday launched GigPoint, a loyalty app aimed toward helping gig workers manage, enjoy and earn more from their work.

The app, which was launched as an invitation-only beta in October, will now be available to Point Pickup’s community of 450,000 gig workers, which the company refers to as flex workers. Through the platform, those workers are...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/point-pickup-launches-gigpoint-rewards-app

Stride aims to give every gig worker a portable benefits account

Stride secures $47 million funding raise to build out portable benefits accounts for gig workers and gig drivers

One enduring feature of the gig economy is “multi-apping” — driving or delivering for several platforms. Many gig workers drive not only with Uber, for example, but with Lyft, too.

The problem, though, is that gig workers don’t receive benefits from any of the platforms they work for due to their legal status as independent contractors, which has contributed to a back-and-forth between gig workers and gig companies that has roiled the gig economy for months.

But what if gig workers not only...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/stride-aims-to-give-every-gig-worker-a-portable-benefits-account

InShare’s new seed funding seeks to get gig workers premium insurance for cheaper

InShare insurance saving gig economy and independent workers money

Rideshare drivers celebrated while Uber and Lyft castigated the California judiciary last week after Alameda County Superior Court Judge Frank Roesch declared the controversial Proposition 22, which exempted rideshare companies from classifying drivers as employees, unconstitutional. Efforts to secure expanded benefits and protections for gig workers have gained a higher profile, and there’s good news on the horizon for independent workers in search of insurance coverage.

Insurance platform InSha...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/inshares-new-seed-funding-seeks-to-get-gig-workers-premium-insurance-for-cheaper

Asteya offers gig workers disability insurance protection

By its nature, gig work isn’t full time. That makes getting insurance more difficult, and certainly more expensive.

According to Statista, just 4% of millennial gig workers had access to employer-based short-term or long-term disability plans. The numbers for boomer gig workers weren’t much better, coming in at 3% for short-term disability and 5% for long-term disability. Generation X gig workers fared a bit better, but not by much, with 8% having access to short-term and 9% having access to...

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