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Aug202020 by adminNo Comments

Lyft and Uber receive reprieve in California employment rights row

Technology

Uber and Lyft have been granted a reprieve in a row over drivers' employment rights in California after a court granted an emergency injunction.The ride-hailing firms had threatened to suspend operations over an earlier ruling that they must classify drivers as employees, not contractors.But the reprieve allows them to continue operating while the court considers their case for appeal. The court's decision came just hours before Lyft was due to halt rides.The court has ordered Uber and Lyft to both submit their plans for hiring employees by early September, and oral arguments in the case are set for mid-October.Lyft was due to stop its services in California at 23:59 local time on Thursday (06:59 GMT on Friday)."This is not something we wanted to do, as w...

Jul142020 by adminNo Comments

Jess Varnish: Former GB cyclist loses employment tribunal appeal against British Cycling

Sports

Former Great Britain cyclist Jess Varnish has lost her employment tribunal appeal against British Cycling.Varnish, 29, has spent years in a legal battle over her claim she should be considered an employee of the governing body or funding agency UK Sport.The former European team sprint champion lost her initial case in January 2019.Her appeal has now been dismissed after a two-day remote hearing in May.The judge, Mr Justice Choudhury, ruled that: "The [original] tribunal was entitled to conclude, based on an evaluative judgment taking account of all relevant factors, that the claimant was not an employee or a worker. "The tribunal had not erred in its approach to the assessment of employee status and nor had it reached conclusions that no reasonable tribunal, properly directed, could have r...

Jan212020 by adminNo Comments

Rise in full-time female workers boosts employment

Business

A record number of women in full-time work has pushed the UK's employment rate to a new high of 76.3%, the latest figures from the Office for National Statistics show.In the three months to November, 126,000 more women worked full-time compared to the previous quarter.The increase is in part because of the change in women's retirement age.The record figure may reduce the likelihood that the Bank of England will cut interest rates next week. Let's block ads! (Why?) BBC News - Business

Nov42019 by adminNo Comments

‘Why I want to sue Asda over new employment contract’

Business

Duncan Carson has just lost his job as a baker at an Asda store near Stoke, but he is preparing to put up a fight.He is among the Asda workers who have been sacked after refusing to sign up to new contracts, but he aims to take the supermarket to an employment tribunal."I think someone should stand up to them," he said. "What is the point in having a contract if they can unilaterally change it?"Asda gave its workers until midnight on Saturday to agree to new terms, which include unpaid breaks, changes to night shift payments and being called to work at shorter notice.The supermarket said 120,000 workers had agreed to the deal, and that fewer than 300 had yet to sign up to the new contract.But Mr Carson, who has worked for Asda fo...

May242019 by adminNo Comments

India’s jobs deficit: Project in Gujarat struggling to create employment

Finance

GANDHINAGAR: When he was chief minister of Gujarat in 2011, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi kicked off an ambitious project to develop a financial hub in the style of Singapore or Dubai. The developers were tasked with transforming an expanse larger than New York's Central Park into a city with more than 100 skyscrapers supporting more than 1 million jobs - all within a decade. Nearly eight years later, Gujarat International Finance Tec-City, or GIFT City, supports only 9,000 jobs and only about 3 million of its 62 million square feet of planned development have been built, according to documents from the company's current presentations to investors reviewed by Reuters, and interviews with GIFT officials. Three million square feet are under construction. Despite efforts by the Modi gov...