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Policymakers should expand opportunities for people to volunteer in their communities. This includes older adults and people with disabilities.

Policymakers should require employers to provide employees with predictable schedules.

All workers should have access to both employment protections and some benefits such as health and retirement.

Federal, state, and local policymakers should ensure the proper classification of workers.

Bans, including temporary ones, on the regulation of companies in the online gig economy (such as Uber) or on the application of existing employment laws to their practices

Congress should provide funding for the Bureau of Labor Statistics to collect sufficient data about contingent work and alternative work arrangements.

Congress and state legislatures should require employers that provide benefits to regular, full-time employees to extend them to part-time employees on a prorated basis.

Employers should be required to disclose to workers when they are being hired as independent contractors.

Employers and policymakers can take steps to ensure that workers can balance work with other responsibilities such as providing care or managing an illness.

Flextime, part-time work, flexplace, telecommuting, teleworking, and job-sharing are examples of flexible work options. They appeal to workers of all ages.