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In reversing a Trump labor rule, Biden administration takes aim at ‘gig economy’ By Jim Puzzanghera Globe Staff,Updated May 5, 2021, 2 hours ago Email to a Friend A demonstration last October against Proposition 22, a ballot measure to exempt companies like Uber from state labor laws requiring them to treat gig workers as employees. Voters approved the measure in November.JIM WILSON/NYT WASHINGTON — Tech companies like Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and Instacart have disrupted the US economy by creating a labor force of millions of so-called gig workers. Now Washington appears poised t...

The Mystery of the Double-Headed Coins of Ancient Istros Dobrudja coast of the Black Sea. Situated approximately 300 miles north of Byzantium, this small city was founded by Miletian traders around 657 or 656 BCE. As the oldest Greek colony on the Black Sea, Istros survived for some 14 centuries before its eventual abandonment in the mid-seventh century CE. It is unsurprising, therefore, that such a long-lasting settlement would produce several interesting and important numismatic types. Known as the “initiator and main producer” of the distinctive cast bronze arrowhead proto-money in t...

Biden and Walsh: To the Rescue of Gig Workers Labor Secretary Marty Walsh speaking at a press briefing earlier this month The battles to win some justice for workers whom their employers deem to be independent contractors when they’re not has taken a new term. Last November, Uber, Lyft, DoorDash, and their ilk dropped a cool $200 million to successfully persuade California voters to nullify a new state law that would have required the companies to stop mislabeling their drivers and would have thereby required them to pay those drivers at least the minimum wage and provide them with benef...

 Rather than turning exclusively to cognitive science and contemporary ethical theories, Hershock shows how classical Confucian and Socratic philosophies help to make visible what a history of choices about remaking ourselves through control biased technology has rendered invisible. But it is in Buddhist thought and practice that Hershock finds the tools for valuing and training our attention, resisting the colonization of consciousness, and engendering a more equitable and diversity-enhancing human-technology-world relationship. Focusing on who we need to be present as to avoid a future in ...

Heller student named plaintiff in class action lawsuit against U.S. Department of Education Tristan Campbell (GRAD), a student at the Heller School for Social Policy and Management, was one of 33 named plaintiffs in a class action lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Education with hopes to eliminate the religious exemption from Title IX, which currently allows religious institutions to discriminate against LGBT students.  The lawsuit, filed by the Religious Exemption Accountability Project (REAP), references 25 religiously-affiliated institutions across the country, most of which are Chri...