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Debate over whether Uber and Lyft drivers can be considered as independent contractors rather than employees led the California Public Utilities Commission to presume these app drivers are employees and to enforce them as such.
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Alameda County partnered with GoGoGrandparent and local restaurants to deliver meals to older adults through the Great Plates Delivered program.
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A study released Thursday by the UC Berkeley Center for Labor Research and Education found that $413 million in additional funding could be in California’s Unemployment Insurance Fund if Lyft and Uber classified their drivers as employees from 2014 to 2019.
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At its regular Tuesday meeting, Berkeley City Council discussed potential measures to include on the November 2020 ballot as well as whether to prioritize certain items in light of the COVID-19 pandemic.
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The Telegraph Shared Streets proposal, which would make the section of Telegraph Avenue from Bancroft Way to Dwight Way a car-free zone, has received “some new buzz” after the launch of the Better Market Street plan Wednesday, according to Berkeley City Councilmember Rigel Robinson.
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Cities were built to be scalable systems. They weren’t modeled for thousands of underpaid drivers to “pick up Divya and drop off Varsha next” all day.
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The fire had burned out on its own by the time the Berkeley Fire Department arrived, according to a UCPD spokesperson, and no UC property was damaged.
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Disability Rights Advocates filed a class-action lawsuit against Lyft on March 20, alleging that the popular ride-sharing service violated the Americans with Disabilities Act by not providing a wheelchair accessible vehicle service for Bay Area residents.
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Tote bags? Hats? Even more tote bags? Sign us up. But what will we do with everything we’ve sneakily (and not-so-sneakily) snagged from Caltopia?
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Sundquist said she was nearly kidnapped and was driven almost four miles away from her destination into the woods. To escape, she said in her post that she jumped out of the car and ran.
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