INSIGHTS Biden’s Labor Secretary Says Gig Workers Should be Considered Employees By Staff Tuesday, May 4, 2021 12:01 AM We are looking at it [and] in a lot of cases gig workers should be classified as employees ... I think it has to be consistent across the board … These companies are making profits and revenue and I’m not (going to) begrudge anyone for that because that’s what we are about in America ... but we also want to make sure that success trickles down to the worker. U.S. Labor Secretary Marty Walsh, in an interview with Reuters late last week. His comments also were reported by Recode in its story, “Biden’s Labor Secretary Says Gig Workers Should be Considered Employees.”