# Professor Arun Sundararajan explains why the sharing economy poses a challenge to labor laws

1 Faculty News August 9, 2015 ![AFP logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_033413.jpg?itok=zZaeBEKo)>

Excerpt from [AFP](http://www.businessinsider.com/afp-sharing-economy-surge-creates-labor-conundrum-2015-8) -- "[Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), who heads New York University's Social Cities Initiative, said policymakers should seek to 'decouple' traditional benefits from the workplace to help gig workers. 'What they are looking for is not to be a full-time employee,' Sundararajan told AFP."

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