# Professor Arun Sundararajan shares recommendations for protecting independent contractor employees

1 Faculty News August 28, 2015 ![Marketplace Logo](/sites/default/files/styles/246w/public/assets/images/marketplace_logo.jpg?itok=IIav3Udj)>

Excerpt from [Marketplace](http://www.marketplace.org/topics/economy/nlrb-decision-pushes-employee-debate) -- "[Arun Sundararajan](http://www.stern.nyu.edu/faculty/bio/arun-sundararajan), a professor at New York University's Stern School of Business and an expert on the digital sharing economy, says the way to protect employees isn’t by making everyone a traditional employee. 'Instead we should sort of translate ... the rights that full-time employees have to a broader spectrum of the economy,' he says."

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