Last month, the Minneapolis City Council reached a deal with Uber and Lyft aimed at increasing driver pay and improving working conditions. On May 20th, the council announced a compromise with the ride-hailing giants, who agreed to an inflation-pegged wage floor matching Minnesota’s minimum wage of $15 an hour after expenses. While this has been ...
Independent UK retailers have launched a landmark retail class action, seeking £1 billion in damages from Amazon. The lawsuit, spearheaded by the British Independent Retailers Association (Bira), claims that Amazon has systematically pushed independent retailers out of its online marketplace. The Allegations Against Amazon The claim, representing about 35,000 sellers, asserts that from October 2015 ...
The chair of Tesla has raised the prospect of Elon Musk stepping back from the electric carmaker if shareholders do not support the chief executive’s $56 billion pay package, highlighting the numerous opportunities where the entrepreneur could invest his time and energy. Robyn Denholm, Tesla’s chair, addressed investors in a letter, emphasizing that the upcoming ...
This might be the first TikTok general election, but it probably won’t be the first election decided by it for one simple reason: the video app’s British users are already likely to vote Labour. “The problem is that almost everyone on TikTok is already on our side,” said one Labour campaign source. “We need to ...
Until about a month ago, the thought of leaving my flat without my headphones connected to my smartphone filled me with anxiety. Any length of time, whether a two-minute walk to the shop or a two-hour commute, with nothing but my own thoughts and the racket of the city to listen to, was enough to ...
