Supreme Court turns down challenge of California labor lawsuits by Uber, Lyft www.latimes.com/world-nation...#Lyft#Uber#LaborLaw#LaborLawsuits#EmployeeRights#Arbitration#AppealsCourt#Misclassification#PaidSickLeave#OvertimePay
The Supreme Court refuses to shield Uber and Lyft from California state labor lawsuits that seek back pay for tens of thousands of drivers.
“California Teamsters Secure Legislation Curtailing Union Busting, Misclassification” — International Brotherhood of Teamsters#UnionNews#Teamsters
So part of how I got fired as a NASA civil servant in my probationary time is that I openly said all of that was raging bullshit and that given requirements to work on site with provided equipment all postdocs should fill our IRS form SS-8 for illegal misclassification & tax fraud 😬
There are several ways to do wage theft. It can be conducted by employers in various ways, among them failing to pay overtime; violating minimum-wage laws; the misclassification of employees as independent contractors; illegal deductions in pay.
Iowa Senators Seek Answers on ATF Misclassification
Iowa Republicans senators Joni Ernst and Chuck Grassley are seeking answers after receiving disclosures from whistleblowers on the Office of Personnel Management’s decision to reinstate the authority of the ATF to classify job positions.
As @stephenjudkins.bsky.social was already saying, the majority of these “platform” companies, are barely veiled monopolies that subsist on worker misclassification, price dumping followed by gouging and intense political protectionism. Crush them. And I say that as a user! I’m part of the problem.
Payroll fraud affects almost 10% of private-sector MN workers, much bigger than robbery, auto theft. Estimates from new report by Aaron Rosenthal of Northstar Policy Action. Presenting now in MN AG's Task Force on Worker Misclassification.
Ah, so I did. Thanks. It's been a long day. And I do so hate all the illegal misclassification these businesses are trying to get away with. Of the two unionized grocery stores we shop at, one tried using Instacart in 2020. But that did not work out for them & now pickup is handled in house.
but Instacart doesn't have employees :( they have independent contractors :( :( :( because they are Doing An Tech Innovation and definitely not just doing a illegal misclassification
"We benchmark a widely used credit score against a machine learning model and find significant misclassification of borrowers, especially those with low scores...improving credit scoring performance could lead to more equitable access to credit." www.nber.org/papers/w3291...
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