Trump administration to tackle 'gig economy' this spring

The Trump administration and Congress will be tackling the issue of the “gig economy” this year, looking into exactly how workers for companies such as Uber and Lyft should be treated under federal workplace law.

The big issue: When do workers for those companies stop being contractors and become employees? Business groups are eager to limit those circumstances, which the Obama administration and court rulings have chipped away at. The Trump will offer its take when the Bureau of Labor Statistics publishes its Contingent Worker Survey in the spring that will offer new data on workers doing short-term, nonsalaried “gig” jobs.