The battle over whether Lyft drivers are employees or contractors is going another round. The Teamsters union and five Lyft drivers have objected to a proposed class-action settlement that does not force the company to reclassify drivers as employees. Drivers would split $12.25 million under a proposed settlement agreement, which also adds new benefits such as termination protection.
I get a lot of people popping up with data breaches for Have I been pwned (HIBP). There’s an interesting story in that itself actually, one I must get around to writing in the future as folks come from all sorts of different backgrounds and offer up data they’ve come across in various locations. Recently someone sent me a list of various data breaches they’d obtained, including this one: …
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Education Department is removing a law firm hired to oversee the turnaround of schools owned by Corinthian Colleges Inc., a for-profit education company whose financial collapse had placed at risk more than $1 billion in federal student loans. An Associated Press investigation identified conflicts with the ostensibly independent monitor. The department said it was …
Pharmacist counts prescription pills. Credit: KARE 11
GOLDEN VALLEY, Minn. – A major company has rolled back the price of a potentially life-saving prescription drug after a KARE 11 News investigation. But the decision has some people asking how often we’re being overcharged on other medicines.
NEW YORK (AP) — Weeks after the first New York trial over General Motors’ faulty ignition switch controversy ended prematurely, a new one is set to start. The Manhattan federal court trial that begins on Monday is meant to define legal boundaries that may aid the settlement of hundreds of lawsuits filed after GM revealed that it had continued to sell flawed cars after discovering an ignition …
The National Music Publishing Association (NMPA) has announced its successful brokering of a settlement between Spotify and its constituents over unmatched (songs that haven’t received payment because Spotify didn’t identify their publishers) and unpaid song royalties, a topic that has given rise to several legal cases against the streaming services over the past few months. The settlement …
Home Depot will pay at least $19.5m in compensation to the 50 million customers hit by hackers who infiltrated the chain’s sales tills in 2014. The US home improvement warehouse will create a $13m fund to reimburse shoppers and spend a further $6.5m providing a year’s worth of identity protection for those impacted. Those are the terms of an agreement disclosed in federal court in its home town …
A federal judge threw out a lawsuit accusing Procter & Gamble Co (PG.N) of misleading consumers by guaranteeing that Duracell batteries would not fail for 10 years, when in fact the batteries might leak when used or stored normally. In a decision late Tuesday night, U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh in San Jose, California, rejected claims in the proposed class-action lawsuit that P&G and its …
Negotiations have resumed to reach an out-of-court settlement for former residential school students in this province. Talks between lawyers representing the former students and the federal government broke off on Thursday without a deal, but said Tuesday that progress was made over the weekend. “The discussions are ongoing.
The big appeal behind Jessica Alba’s Honest Company–besides the celebrity factor, if that dazzles you–is the simplicity it promises. The transparent bottles clearly label the good stuff that’s in the product and the bad stuff that isn’t. On its website, the company offers its “honestly free guarantee”: “Providing clear, credible, transparent information.