The companies will have 10 days before the order goes into effect to allow a higher appeal, according to a copy of the ruling by Judge Ethan Schulman of San Francisco Superior Court. Uber and Lyft currently treat their drivers as self-employed contractors. The mixed legal pressure to redistribute their …
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Coronavirus: WHO Director-General says there are ‘green shoots of hope’ in global fight against Covid-19
The world is witnessing “green shoots of hope” in its battle against Covid-19, said the head of the World Health Organization (WHO). In the WHO’s daily media review, Dr Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus began noticing the scale of the coronavirus pandemic, with 20 million confirmed cases and 750,000 deaths expected by …
Read More »Powerful derecho leaves paths of destruction across the Midwest
IOWA CITY, Iowa – A rare storm that grabbed 100 mph winds and struck like a domestic hurricane Monday across the Midwest, blowing over trees, overturning cars, causing widespread damage to property and leaving hundreds of thousands without power when it went through Chicago and into Indiana and Michigan. The …
Read More »Ancient ‘terror crocodiles’ had teeth the size of bananas
This illustration shows Deinosuchus from bone to flesh. Tyler Stone Let’s turn the clock back millions of years to a time when crocodiles lived as long as buses in America. A new study of fossils of Deinosuchus has revealed more details about what these mind-boggling predators looked like and how …
Read More »Warriors’ Steph Curry ‘had big FOMO’ when NBA bubble games began
To put on the legendary Ron Burgundy: Steph Curry is sort of a big deal at Under Armor. That makes perfect sense why the Warriors superstar will soon “have his own brand under the umbrella of Under Armor, just like Michael Jordan’s Jordan Brand did at Nike,” as Let’s Go …
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