- Reuters
Massachusetts takes Uber, Lyft to trial over status of gig workers
Uber Technologies and Lyft are set to face trial on Monday in a U.S. lawsuit by Massachusetts' attorney general alleging the ride-share companies misclassified their drivers as independent contractors rather than more costly employees. The non-jury trial in Boston comes amid broader legal and political battles in the Democratic-led state and elsewhere nationally over the status of drivers for app-based companies whose rise has fueled the U.S. gig worker economy. Massachusetts Attorney General Andrea Joy Campbell is asking a judge to conclude that drivers for Uber and Lyft are employees under state law and therefore entitled to benefits such as a minimum wage, overtime and earned sick time.
- The Telegraph
Apple’s iPad advert exposes Big Tech’s psychopathy
With just two bad jokes at the Royal Albert Hall in 1991, Gerald Ratner destroyed his company’s reputation. Last week Apple had a go, but on a much bigger budget.
- Reuters
Aggrieved former lawyer Michael Cohen to testify against Trump at hush money trial
Donald Trump's estranged former fixer Michael Cohen is expected to begin giving testimony on Monday that could determine whether jurors convict the former U.S. president of illegally hiding a payment to silence a porn star who said they had a sexual encounter. For nearly a decade Cohen, 57, worked as an executive and lawyer at Trump's New York-based family real estate company and once said he would take a bullet for Trump, a Republican trying to take back the White House from Democratic President Joe Biden in this year's Nov. 5 U.S. election. Trump's personal lawyer from the start of the White House years in 2017, Cohen broke with him when federal prosecutors probing Trump's 2016 presidential campaign honed in on Cohen, now one of Trump's most outspoken critics, frequently disparaging him on social media and on podcasts.
