#Misclassification

Susan Valot

susanvalot

Why am I against the ABC test that’s in the PRO Act and other legislation? People with 9-5 jobs have trouble understanding why freelance small businesses trade in that life

James Queally

JamesQueallyLAT

THREAD: I didn't really have time to nitpick the finer data points during last night's D.A. debate, but I think we all need to be operating off the same set

Elizabeth Warren

SenWarren

Frontline workers – health care, transit, farm, grocery, domestic & delivery workers – are risking their lives to keep America running. We can’t rely on big business to protect them.

Katy Backes Kozhimannil, PhD, MPA

katybkoz

COVID-19 exposes deeply rooted health inequities. Let’s ensure our response corrects them by centering on the voices & experiences of people from communities most impacted. THREAD 1/nhttps://twitter.com/JRuralHealth/status/1260261963361214465 Ser

Lena Simet

LenaSimet

At @hrw we stand w gig workers, whose rights are at risk.@AmosToh & I explain in @Wired how Proposition 22 would roll back min wage & other labor protections for

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

"Gig economy" is a polite term for "worker misclassification" - a way to violate labor law by pretending that your employees are actually independent contractors. 1/ Unsurprisingly, the companies that

el gato malo

boriquagato

adventures in presuming your conclusion: FT edition 11.0.this graph is a disgrace. it presumes a 2 factor world of "protect economy" and "protect lives."it ignores the overwhelming evidence that lockdowns

Abir Ballan 😊

abirballan

CFR, IFR, CMR & one more R:Reality check. I was deeply disturbed yesterday to hear a friend of mine claiming that the mortality from C19 is 5%. Well, it is

Bear Braumoeller

Prof_BearB

Since voting fraud is a hot issue at the moment, it's worth revisiting one of the cornerstones of the Trump Administration's claims about it—a peer-reviewed article that found that non-citizens

Cory Doctorow

doctorow

In most of the world, the lockdown has destroyed small businesses while increasing the profits of Big Tech intermediaries like Amazon, who control access to customers on one side, and

Dr Ellie Murray

EpiEllie

I want to talk about an important new study on racial disparities in infant survival, from @RRHDr & colleagues.The tl;dr: Black infants in the US are less likely to die

martinmcmahon

williamhboney1

#RTE in the Public Accounts Committee 27th April 2021.Issues regarding #BogusSelfEmployment Analysis -The first pertinent question on @bogusselfemployment was from @PaulMcauliffe. Paul asked about the Eversheds Sutherland report which had

Andrea Danese

andrea_danese

New Danese & Widom @NatureHumBehav paper ’Objective and subjective experiences of child maltreatment and their relationships with psychopathology’ is out @KingsIoPPN @MaudsleyNHS @CUNY - see THREAD belowhttps://www.nature.com/articl

Whitney R. Robinson

WhitneyEpi

Reading this article (in which I'm quoted near the end), I realized why I have such a strong visceral reaction to some of the negative coverage of @ProfEmilyOster's work on

Evan Yeats

Evan_Yeats

And we're off! The ANC 4B virtual meeting is underway for the month of May. You can view details here:https://anc4b.com/2020/05/21/virtual-meeting-materials-may-2020/ We've modified our agenda already. Resolution 4B-20-0501 has been

Lyman Stone 石來民 🦬🦬🦬

lymanstoneky

THIS IS FALSEhttps://twitter.com/Noahpinion/status/1266255161338376194 Here's the raw reported Florida P&I mortality by week back to 2012-13 from CDC.The tweets circulating come from people comparing to monthly data downloaded from