Misclassifying employees as gig workers creates 'a race to the bottom' for businesses, Biden's top labor and antitrust regulators say

• Contractors lack many of the labor protections of workers directly employed by a company.
• Businesses have an incentive to misclassify workers as contractors to undermine their competitors, according to the DOJ Antitrust Division.
• Misclassification may keep workers from finding a better workplace, DOJ argued.

Gig work is hot, but it's not fair for either workers or employers, top labor and antitrust regulators say.