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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 wor

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.

FlextimeA schedule that allows workers to alter the start and end times

Public and private employers should provide more flexible work options.