Biden's new labor secretary says gig workers should be classified as employees

Labor Secretary Marty Walsh thinks many gig workers should be categorized as employees with health and retirement benefits, a stark reversal from the policies of the Trump administration.

The top U.S. labor official expressed his views on gig workers for the first time in an interview with Reuters on Thursday. "We are looking at it but in a lot of cases gig workers should be classified as employees... in some cases they are treated respectfully and in some cases they are not, and I think it has to be consistent across the board," Walsh, a former union leader and mayor of Boston, told the media outlet.