Mammon category archive
Loaves and Fishy 0
Noz links to the menu.
The Privatization Scam 0
North Carolina has a new twist on the Privatization Scam.
I can see the outcome now: the rich will get richer and the sick will get sicker.
“Unpersons” 0
Warning: Language.
Gold Bugged 0
Scammified on a cross of gold.
Just a Cottage by the Sea . . . 0
. . . with an edifice complex.
The Snaring Economy 0
More on “misclassification” of employees:
Tuesday’s ruling increases the number of potential California plaintiffs in the suit that claims Uber drivers are incorrectly classified as independent contractors when they are actually employees.
In the “sharing” economy, the “sharing” is unidirectional.
Theft of Labor 0
It’s a thing.
My local rag has an extensive story about it.
Neither the federal nor state government has a solid handle on how often it happens. The Economic Policy Institute, a Washington think tank, estimated in a report in June that 10 percent to 20 percent of employers misclassify workers.
Virginia audited 2,120, or about 1 percent, of the state’s 188,585 employers in 2010. About 28 percent, or 584, had misclassified workers.