Photo: Mario Tama (Getty Images) On Thursday, a judge in California denied motions by Uber and Lyft to grant a delay previous promotion that the ride-sharing companies ordered to classify their contractors as full time employees. That ruling goes into effect on August 20th which the companies had requested an …
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Uber threatens to close temporarily in California
Photo: Alex Wong (Getty Images) As Uber public grips with the moral dilemma of having built a company that is a big ass around operating payroll practices, CEO Dara Khosrowshahi now says that if California forces the company to reclassify its contractors as full-time employees, Uber will temporarily close its …
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Samantha Schaevitz was in the hometown of a community at Huridocs, a nonprofit of human rights, when she received the call. Schaevitz works on site-trusted engineering at Google; they are the ones who keep the ship stable when things get choppy. And by February of this year, when large parts …
Read More »Yes, maybe you can retire one day
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused us to think about many parts of our daily existence, such as our health, jobs, where we live, our financial future, education, travel and the simple handshake. But according to data released Tuesday, many savers are still financially on the path to retirement. The combination …
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