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The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the lower court ruling, saying that the plaintiffs have failed to show that the law, known as AB 5, unfairly singled out app-based transportation companies. A U. S. appeals court struck down a bid by Uber and its subsidiary, Postmates, on Monday that tried to reignite a challenge to a California law that could force certain companies to treat gig workers as employees rather than independent contractors.

The updated policy ‘prohibits employees from directly or indirectly managing relatives or those with whom they’re in an intimate relationship,’ according to the memo. BP employees must disclose any intimate relationships with colleagues or risk losing their jobs, the oil major told staff in a policy update, following the sacking of former CEO Bernard Looney for failing to do so.

The theme of fairness to Musk is the heart of Tesla’s campaign. With major Tesla shareholders appearing divided over whether to endorse Elon Musk’s $56 billion pay package, the company also is looking for support from retail investors who make up an unusually high percentage of the electric carmaker’s ownership base.

It is not yet clear to NASA officials if the issues that occurred during Starliner’s first crewed mission would warrant redesigns. Boeing’s Starliner spacecraft scored a crucial achievement last week with the delivery of two astronauts to the International Space Station, but problems encountered along its journey in space and more hurdles that lie ahead make the aerospace giant’s goal toward routine missions a distant prospect.

The latest U. S. payrolls report did little to settle the debate about where the job market is headed. The latest U. S. payrolls report did little to settle the debate about where the job market is headed, with ample fodder for both “soft-landing” believers and doubters over whether the Federal Reserve can tame inflation without sending millions of workers onto the jobless rolls.

Officials in Boston, New York, and Washington, D. C., have started cracking down on food delivery companies by issuing warning letters, seizing illegally registered or driven vehicles, and launching special street patrols to enforce speed limits. A soaring demand for food delivered fast has spawned small armies of couriers — and increasing alarm — in big cities where scooters, motorcycles and mopeds zip in and out of traffic and hop onto pedestrian-filled sidewalks as their drivers race to drop off salads and sandwiches.