But, citing a federal appeals court decision, the memo also said the “animating principle” used to make the determination of contractor status was whether the worker had an opportunity to profit from the activity in the way an entrepreneur would. “The drivers had significant entrepreneurial opportunity by virtue of their near complete control of their […]
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Sydney Winlock owns a small business with his wife in Northern California, and they had a strange conversation recently: Should they make less money so they can afford their health insurance? The couple makes too much money to qualify for help from the federal government in paying their monthly insurance premiums, which now cost them
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Image caption BBC Breakfast is hitting the target In April last year, the BBC launched its 50:50 challenge, aiming for an equal number of male and female expert contributors on-air and online. A year on, the results of last month’s data have been revealed and show a big boost in female representation. Nearly three-quarters of
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Boots, Superdrug and Holland & Barrett have broken their own polices by selling diet pills to a 17-year-old without checking for ID, the BBC has found. A 17-year-old actress, sent by BBC Watchdog, was able to buy diet pills in 17 out of 18 stores visited. A single branch of Boots was the only store
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A school believed to be the first in the world predominantly for transgender children and their siblings opened in Chile last year. It is named after the Mexican transgender politician Amaranta Gómez Regalado, and caters for children aged between 6 and 17. Many of the students dropped out of their previous schools once they began
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Weeks after the first fatal crash of the 737 Max, pilots from American Airlines pressed Boeing executives to work urgently on a fix. In a closed-door meeting, they even argued that Boeing should push authorities to take an emergency measure that would likely result in the grounding of the Max. The Boeing executives resisted. They
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The Metropolitan Police have been trialling the use of facial recognition in different parts of London, using cameras to scan passers-by to find matches on watch lists. South Wales Police have used similar technology in more than a dozen trials. Some privacy campaigners say there is no UK legislation regarding facial recognition and it is
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The anniversary of New Jersey’s victory in a U.S. Supreme Court case clearing the way for legal sports betting across the nation was a happy one for the state’s casinos and racetracks, which reported taking in more than $300 million worth of sports bets for the sixth month in a row. Figures released Tuesday by
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She was born Georgianna Alice Mitchell (called Georgie Alice as a girl, she later preferred to go by Alice) on March 4, 1931, in Philadelphia and grew up mainly in Bloomington, Ind., where her father, Allan C. G. Rivlin, headed the Indiana University physics department and worked on developing the atomic bomb as part of
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Stocks climbed on Tuesday and clawed back a chunk of their losses from Monday’s rout, the latest whipsaw move as investors weigh just how badly the escalating U.S.-China trade war will hurt the economy. The day’s rally was nearly a mirror image of Monday’s plunge, when the S&P 500 had its worst day since early
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