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Members of Communities Against Alcohol Harm protesting outside a liquor store in Ōtara. Photo: LDR / Justin Latif Clevedon Road Liquor store owner Satnam Singh Jador has been fined $20,000 and ordered to repay $97,361.66 to four employees for a range of breaches, including not paying the minimum wage for all the hours staff were working. The Labour Inspectorate noted this case had all the hallmarks of exploitation, due to the workers needing the job to retain their visa status. The Employment Relations Authority ruling is the second in South Auckland this year. Super Liquor Papatoetoe was ordered to pay close to $50,000 for exploiting a migrant worker in February, while over the last 18 months, Thirsty Liquor East Tamaki was fined $1000 and Thirsty Liquor Wickman Way in Māngere was fined $2000, both for failing to comply with employment laws. ....
Steve Bryan launched Bluewire to help fleets mount proactive defense strategy against plaintiff attorneys. Read CCJ to see how the technology measures a fleet s reputation. ....
May 13, 2021 Hollywood action movies follow a predictable script for disarming bombs. Seconds before the ticker reaches zero, a protagonist cuts the blue wire and saves the day. Solving legal problems is not so simple, especially for motor carriers who over the last decade have seen the litigation environment turn “nuclear.” In a June 2020 report, the American Transportation Research Institute charted a 967% increase in the average size of verdicts from $2,305,736 to $22,288,000 between 2010 and 2018. The good news, if there is any, is that rising litigation and insurance costs have created entry points for businesses to bring a fresh approach. For example, loss ratios have forced commercial truck insurers to exit the market but “insurtech” companies have come in with programs and technology to squeeze out savings for fleets. ....
Sandia National Laboratories Partners with Quintillion to Conduct First of Its Kind Arctic Research News provided by Share this article Share this article ANCHORAGE, Alaska, April 8, 2021 /PRNewswire/ Warming at roughly double the rate as the rest of the world, the Arctic is disproportionately affected by climate change, yet the region remains one of the least understood. Sandia National Laboratories scientists are working to gain understanding of the area by capturing and analyzing data pulled from the depths of the Arctic Ocean. In early February, a team of Sandia scientists, led by geophysicist Rob Abbott, connected a distributed acoustic sensing interrogator system to Quintillion s existing fiber optic cable network along the seafloor of Oliktok Point. This is the first time distributed acoustic sensing has been used to capture data on the seafloor under sea ice in the Arctic Ocean. The system captured and recorded cable vibrations 24 hours a day for ....