The analysis estimated the on-demand ride platforms would have owed the state about $266 million in combined workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, and the paid family and medical leave payments over the past decade if their tens of thousands of drivers were treated as full employees.
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Unions launch pre-emptive strike against ride-share ballot questions
Massachusetts is Not For Sale, a coalition of labor organizations including the Massachusetts AFL-CIO, is arguing that the SJC should keep five different versions of the Big Tech-backed ballot initiative away from voters, claiming in a new brief that each petition “contains multiple unrelated policy choices” and “all the petitions appear designed to sow maximum voter confusion.”
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Massport: New Uber/Lyft drop-offs will speed Logan travel
THE MASSACHUSETTS PORT AUTHORITY staged a dry run on Wednesday to demonstrate how a centralized location for Uber and Lyft pickups and drop-offs will work at Logan International Airport. With […]