Business Success Action Group

Firms like Uber, Doordash say their workers enjoy the flexibility of the gig economy; Working groups fear the creation of an underclass. With the growing threat of a new U.S. government insisting on classifying hail and grocery suppliers as full-benefit employees, gig economy companies like Uber, Lyft, Doordash and Instacart are pushing for their drivers' status as independent contractors to be retained, albeit with additional benefits. Those companies, whose business models are based on low-cost flexible labor, argue that surveys show that the majority of their workers do not want to be workers and that a new generation of workers want to choose when and how much they want to work. They hope to convince US officials and lawmakers to drop attempts to classify gig workers as white-collar workers. These efforts have become more urgent with the election of US President Joe Biden, who stood up for the promise to benefit gig workers. US Secretary of Labor Marty Walsh intensified

The NHS recognized digital therapeutics company my mhealth with three European employees has received a Eurostars grant of EUR 2.5 million for the development of its innovative CUOREMA project. Eurostars is a joint European program co-financed by the national budgets of 36 EUREKA countries and the European Union until Horizon 2020. As a UK funding agency, Innovate UK will sponsor my mhealth Limited to develop part of its myHeart app to support heart rehabilitation in Europe. Together with three experienced European partners; The project Ospedale Malcantonese (OSCAM) (Switzerland), Games for Health (Netherlands) and the University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (SUPSI) (Switzerland) aims to use the cardiac rehabilitation element of the myHeart app and to integrate biofeedback , intelligent algorithms and gamification functions. During the three years of planning and development, the platform will be formally explored in the UK and several Eur