# Professor Arun Sundararajan outlines the challenge that the growing gig economy presents for lawmakers

1 Faculty News August 5, 2015 ![NextCity logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/con_045906.jpg?itok=CYEd5hRF)>

Excerpt from [NextCity](https://nextcity.org/daily/entry/sharing-economy-jobs-employees-not-contractors) -- "'The critical thing in the next decade or two is that we structure labor law in a way that allows a wider variety of work arrangements,' [Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan) adds. 'The same protections, the hard-won protections of full-time employment should be extended to other categories of work so that we don’t bias people towards one particular form.'"

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