Gig Workers: DOL Wants Your Freelance Life in a Survey
Published Date: 3/11/2025
Notice
Summary
The Department of Labor is asking for approval to collect new info about people with temporary or gig jobs, like freelancers and app-based workers. This helps understand how these jobs affect workers and the economy. Comments on this plan are open until April 10, 2025, so anyone affected or interested can share their thoughts.
Analyzed Economic Effects
2 provisions identified: 1 benefits, 1 costs, 0 mixed.
New survey on gig and contingent work
You may be counted by a new Contingent Work Supplement to the Current Population Survey that asks about contingent jobs and alternative employment arrangements. The questions cover independent contractors, on-call workers, temporary help agency workers, workers provided by contract firms, and digital labor platform workers who use an app or website to find work. The notice lists Total Estimated Number of Respondents: 48,000 and Total Estimated Annual Time Burden: 2,400 hours, and invites comments through April 10, 2025.
Estimated respondent burden and costs
The notice states an Affected Public of State, Local and Tribal Governments, with a Total Estimated Number of Respondents of 48,000, Total Estimated Number of Responses 48,000, Total Estimated Annual Time Burden of 2,400 hours, and Total Estimated Annual Other Costs Burden of $0. The information collection is assigned OMB Control Number 1220-0153.
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