How many other drugs are similarly being misclassified is unclear.
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Previous reports had come out that the software misclassified Herzberg.
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And Uber and Lyft drivers are misclassified as independent contractors.
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Instacart, alleging that it purposely misclassified its shoppers as independent
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The research had some limitations, including that deaths can be misclassified and that deaths among American Indian, Alaska Native, Asian, Pacific Islander and Hispanic people may be misclassified to other race and ethnicity groups.
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However, it also misclassified three of the 18 full-term births.
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It also misclassified 35 Hispanic police officers in Albuquerque as white.
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The judge in fact ruled that the workers were probably misclassified.
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Anyone who doesn't fit it will automatically be misclassified and misgendered.
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The AI had misclassified her as a vehicle and then a bicycle.
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In some cases officers misclassified complaints or failed to interview people involved.
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Rockett suspects that many drug-related deaths have been misclassified as accidents.
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Some surgeries might also have been misclassified as major or minor procedures.
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Often times, Latinx people are misclassified or not classified at all, Steele said.
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Some drivers have sued the company, claiming they are misclassified as independent contractors.
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But this data is likely incomplete – thanks to deaths that have been misclassified.
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I wonder if cases of Zika have been occurring but misclassified in the region.
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TMI misclassified obesity only 8% of the time (versus more than 19% with BMI).
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In 1984 the IRS estimated that 3.4m workers were being misclassified as independent contractors.
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Because the video contained footage from an authoritative news source, our system misclassified it.
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In other words, an employee who is misclassified as an independent contractor is getting screwed.
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Gizmodo: This was an interesting take, to slightly rotate an object and something is misclassified.
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The company said that they classify fake accounts into two types: abusive and under-misclassified.
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If many other drugs are similarly misclassified, she said, the financial impact could be huge.
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Additionally, once found to have misclassified workers, the business must reclassify the workers as employees.
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Plus, it noted, its algorithms will improve as users respond to misclassified posts over time.
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Depending on the state, the law can override this and say that you've been misclassified.
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Drivers brought a suit against the company in California, claiming that they had been misclassified.
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Moreover, the same test misclassified just one of the 26 women who carried to full term.
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Uber drivers have spent years fighting the company in court, saying they have been intentionally misclassified.
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The fossils of Lemmysuchus were discovered in England, and sat misclassified for years in a museum.
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But users will still need to appeal if their posts are misclassified, or they'll remain hidden.
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Think Uber drivers and Instacart workers (they're still arguing that they've been misclassified as independent contractors).
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Lyft and Postmates have already been sued by workers who say they were misclassified as contractors.
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AB25's intention — to protect and reclassify truly victimized and misclassified workers — is noble and worthy.
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The government said last fall Mylan had misclassified the drug and was overcharging the Medicaid program.
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For each worker who is misclassified, the employer can be fined anywhere from $5,000 to $15,000.
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Most initial reports of assaults were misclassified as ''miscellaneous'' and simply closed without any investigation at all.
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When the objects' positions were slightly altered, the neural nets misclassified them 97 percent of the time.
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Think Uber drivers and Instacart workers who are still arguing that they've been misclassified as independent contractors.
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OIG found that 885 of the drugs, or 3 percent of the total, were misclassified in 2016.
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While 54 drugmakers may have misclassified drugs, four were responsible for more than half of all potential misclassifications.
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The suit also claims that some drivers had been misclassified as contractors while performing the work of employees.
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If other drugs are misclassified, and surely EpiPen isn't the only one, the public deserves to know it.
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And causes of death may have been misclassified because of the limitations of information provided by death certificates.
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Here's the full ruling: Correction: This article's original headline said a judge ruled that Instacart misclassified its shoppers.
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But many workers are misclassified as independent contractors, Wentworth said, and under the law they are actually employees.
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The Environmental Defense Action Fund said Facebook's automated review wrongly misclassified one of its ads as promoting tobacco.
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The lawsuit focused on whether or not Flowers Foods had misclassified its distributors as independent contractors instead of employees.
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First filed in April of 2005, the suit alleged that drivers for Dynamex had been misclassified as independent contractors.
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But the report's findings show that there are clear incentives for companies not to speak up if they're misclassified.
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CMS found that Mylan had misclassified the EpiPen as a "non-innovator multiple source drug," or a generic drug.
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It will also allow them to take another look at other galaxies that might also be misclassified or misunderstood.
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"Because the video contained footage from an authoritative news source, our system misclassified it," YouTube said in a statement.
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Studies have shown that African Americans are more likely to be misclassified as high-risk than their white counterparts.
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He misclassified shootings in Umpqua Community College in Oregon; Hiahleah, Florida; and elsewhere as occurring in gun-free zones.
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BITS: A San Diego judge ruled that Instacart misclassified tens of thousands of its California workers as independent contractors.
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Mr. LeRoy has found that in 93 percent of rulings, the court agreed that the strippers had been misclassified.
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Mr. LeRoy has found that in 93 percent of rulings, the court agreed that the strippers had been misclassified.
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An earlier version featured census tract level results, but reporters discovered the county's epidemiologist had misclassified some of them.
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Between 2012 and 2016, drugmakers may have owed an additional $1.3 billion in rebates for just 10 potentially misclassified drugs.
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So how can you tell if you're actually an employee but your employer has misclassified you as an independent contractor?
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Clinton may not have sent the emails herself, but would have been required to flag any misclassified information that she saw.
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Monday's settlement also calls for the dismissal of claims that Uber misclassified drivers who used the Uber app as independent contractors.
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Some of the lowest-paid, least educated workers are often the ones who get misclassified, such as janitors and construction workers.
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Turo contends in its lawsuit that LAX has misclassified its peer-to-peer car-sharing platform as a rental car company.
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African-American, Hispanic and American Indian suicides have historically been more misclassified than white suicide—and still are to this day.
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She also said laws should be streamlined and instances of workers being misclassified as something other than employees should be reduced.
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Using those 7 genes, they accurately classified six of eight preterm cases and misclassified only one of 26 full-term cases.
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" Restaurant Associates says it misclassified the cafeteria workers thanks to "administrative technicalities" relating to their "evolving day-to-day work responsibilities.
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The cost to Medicaid for covering the misclassified drugs to beneficiaries was more than $813 million in 2016, the report found.
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Researchers looked at 103 apps that predicted a fertility window, 24 of which misclassified fertile days as infertile, and vice versa.
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The idea behind the law, signed in September, is that many workers are misclassified as contractors so companies can save money.
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The judge tossed out claims that the three companies misclassified workers as independent contractors and owed them minimum wage and overtime pay.
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And there have been occasions in the past when China's customs department misclassified iron ore with high nickel content as nickel ore.
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Workers in several states had initially filed lawsuits against Jan-Pro in 2007, alleging that they were being misclassified as independent contractors.
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The authors of the study developed a way to more accurately track drug-related deaths, which are sometimes misclassified on death certificates.
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"It is not reasonable for H.H.S. to cement misclassified costs into future reimbursements, thus perpetuating literally million-dollar mistakes," Judge Kavanaugh wrote.
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He, like all of the drivers in the myriad of drayage companies owned by California Cartage, is misclassified as an independent contractor.
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In the past, the responsibility was on Uber and Lyft drivers to sue if they felt they were being misclassified as employees.
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Frank Pallone, also a Democrat, said Wednesday's response proved their claim that EpiPen was misclassified and that Mylan had overcharged the government.
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Instacart workers sued the company in December 2016, alleging that Instacart misclassified them as independent contractors, demanding repayments for benefits awarded to employees.
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And is the individual seller or the marketplace liable for lost tax dollars if a product is misclassified at a lower tax rate?
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By the numbers: Only about 3% of drugs in the Medicaid rebate program were potentially misclassified in 2016, according to an HHS report.
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Drivers had complained that Uber misclassified them as independent contractors to avoid having to reimburse them for gasoline, vehicle maintenance and other expenses.
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The developer in December had said financial adviser FTI Consulting had found 30.8 billion yuan in misclassified outstanding loan liabilities for 2012-2014.
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The suits are close in kind to those levied against Uber and Grubhub, which also allege that workers had been misclassified as contractors.
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But once the government reviewed my case, they realized that I am a misclassified employee and entitled to disability and workers' compensation benefits.
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He and his team found that the software still misclassified items, in the most noisy cases as often as 97 percent of the time.
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It's clear that Epicurious misclassified the position, and this explains why the editor later said the position would include standard employee benefits after all.
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According to the Senate Judiciary Committee, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services warned Mylan on several occasions that it had misclassified the EpiPen.
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CMS said it could not determine how much the government is owed for EpiPens, but reiterated its view that Mylan had misclassified the product.
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For one, they avoid getting sued for violating labor laws because workers may not realize they've been misclassified and therefore have the right to sue.
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Shares of Mylan extended losses Friday after a lawmaker said the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services found that Mylan misclassified the lifesaving EpiPen device.
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Intersex people are unusually likely to switch gender identity at some point, perhaps because those identities are less stable or they were misclassified in childhood.
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A lawyer who has brought high-profile cases alleging that Uber, FedEx and other companies intentionally misclassified drivers as independent contractors is now targeting Amazon.
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The error, Spencer said, was that his group had been misclassified by the IRS and listed as not being required file the necessary tax forms.
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A blockbuster New York Times investigation last fall into Trump's "tax dodges" suggested his returns could show hundreds of millions of dollars in misclassified income.
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New Jersey is seeking more than $640 million from Uber in taxes and penalties, saying the ride-hailing company misclassified its drivers as independent contractors.
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Most of the studies did not consider how such an abrupt withdrawal might compromise the studies' findings: withdrawal symptoms can easily be misclassified as relapse.
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GrubHub, is looking to determine whether Lawson, an ex-GrubHub driver who was fired, was misclassified as an independent contractor while delivering food for GrubHub.
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When asked by CNN what these doctors were being paid to do, Acadia said it previously misclassified many of its payments in the government data.
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The study had some limitations, including that some patients may not have taken their prescribed medication as directed, so anticholinergic exposure levels could have been misclassified.
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The union said GDIT is the top federal contractor in the call center industry and has misclassified tens of thousands of call center workers since 2013.
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GrubHub, is looking to determine whether or not plaintiff Raef Lawson, an ex-GrubHub driver, was misclassified as an independent contractor while delivering food for GrubHub.
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This agreement comes after the DOL's Wage and Hour Division found that Zenefits misclassified the above-mentioned employees as being exempt from minimum wage and overtime.
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The suit, which was originally filed in 2015, alleged GrubHub misclassified Raef Lawson as an independent contractor and, in doing so, violated the California Labor Code.
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Drivers for the service argued that they'd been misclassified as independent contractors, rather than employees, and are set to receive $27 million under the revised settlement.
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But it misclassified women as men 19 percent of the time, the researchers said, and mistook darker-skinned women for men 31 percent of the time.
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They include reviewing the potentially misclassified drugs identified, and following up with manufacturers, as well as developing a new reporting system that could reduce classification errors.
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Costanza-Chock added that "binary" gender classifications were more likely to harm trans people and dark-skinned women since they are more likely to be misclassified.
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Also, some varicose veins patients may have been misclassified into the group without the condition, as not all women notify their doctors when the veins appear.
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The team published a study last year saying that these specimens, one of which was collected nearly a century ago, had been misclassified as common sea dragons.
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Like Lyft, Uber claims Keller Lenkner is conflicted from representing drivers who claim to have been misclassified as contractors because of Postman's work at the U.S. Chamber.
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But here's what we do know: Millions of employees are misclassified each year, and it's costing state and federal governments billions of dollars in lost tax revenue.
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The company settled a $4.6 million suit in 2017 regarding claims that it had misclassified its shoppers as independent contractors and didn't reimburse them for work expenses.
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Some economists question whether the Chinese data does not disguise capital flight in the form of purchases of life insurance and property abroad misclassified as tourism spending.
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The state's supreme court said the agency misclassified them, as many of them could not set their own wages and had their hours controlled by the agency.
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By contrast, the study reported, Amazon misclassified the gender of darker-skinned females 31 percent of the time, while Kairos had an error rate of 22.5 percent.
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Just months after making its first deliveries, however, the company was sued by four drivers who successfully claimed they had been misclassified as contractors rather than employees.
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He has unsuccessfully petitioned the agency to withdraw the approvals, arguing in his brief that laser manufacturers underreported or misclassified adverse events that occurred during clinical trials.
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DoorDash, DoorDash must arbitrate over 2000,2600 individual disputes with various workers who claim that they were misclassified as independent contractors, when they should be treated as employees.
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Drivers in California brought the class action suit claiming that they had been misclassified as independent contractors, rather than employees who often get more benefits and protections.
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Traditional businesses like garment factories, construction companies and trucking have often misclassified employees as contractors to avoid offering benefits, paying payroll taxes and abiding by labor laws.
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"Mylan misclassified its brand name drug, EpiPen, to profit at the expense of the Medicaid program," Acting U.S. Attorney William D. Weinreb said in a press release.
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"A lot of workers in California and throughout the nation have been misclassified for years," said Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, D-San Diego, who introduced AB 5 in December.
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The suit, which was originally filed in 224, alleges GrubHub misclassified Raef Lawson and Andrew Tan as independent contractors and, in doing so, violated the California Labor Code.
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Over the last 40 years, there has been slight decline in the number of suicides misclassified as undetermined or unintentional, although this trend varies by demographics and cultures.
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"When workers are misclassified, they are denied basic workplace protections all other employees enjoy in California," Gonzalez wrote in an op-ed for the San Diego Union-Tribune.
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In 2017, Instacart settled a $4.6 million suit regarding claims that the company misclassified its personal shoppers as independent contractors, and also failed to reimburse them for work expenses.
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Because Native Americans are commonly mixed-race, Bullock said, many do not self-identify, and others who may not "look" Native American may be misclassified by hospital intake staff.
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The company also faces a slew of arbitration claims and lawsuits from drivers who claim they are misclassified as independent contractors and owed back wages and reimbursement for expenses.
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Drivers around the country have sued Uber and Lyft claiming the companies misclassified them as independent contractors and deprived them of overtime pay, tips, reimbursements and certain employment protections.
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Lemmysuchus, as the 145 million-year-old creature is now known, had to be renamed after scientists realized that it had been misclassified when it was discovered in 1909.
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A San Diego judge said that the grocery delivery app Instacart has misclassified tens of thousands of its California gig workers who pack and deliver groceries as independent contractors.
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Uber drivers filed a class-action lawsuit claiming they have been misclassified as independent contractors and should be compensated by Uber for expenses like health insurance, gas and vehicle maintenance.
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If the department has made mistakes with the litigants and misclassified their employers, it can fix them quickly and settle the suit without freaking out untold numbers of other borrowers.
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More than 1.13,000 drivers have filed or told Uber that they intend to file arbitration cases against the company, claiming that they were misclassified as independent contractors, the company said.
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If the department has made mistakes with the litigants and misclassified their employers, it can fix them quickly and settle the suit without freaking out untold numbers of other borrowers.
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"Your chances of finding a worker that's been misclassified if that worker has not complained are worse than your chances of finding a leprechaun riding a unicorn," Mr. Harris said.
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For example, a Los Angeles Times analysis found that the LAPD misclassified about 14,000 crimes between 2005 and 2012, leading to an apparent 7 percent drop overall in violent crime.
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Some worry that some of this is misclassified raw product, processed just enough to avoid China's 15% export tax, and a sign of excess aluminium capacity spilling on to global markets.
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The question at the center of the case was whether Uber misclassified its drivers as independent contractors — a classification often determined by how much control a company exerts over the contractor.
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The union alleged that General Dynamics Information Technology in Fairfax, Virginia misclassified workers as being in lower-paying positions even though they were performing the work of positions that paid more.
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Meanwhile, the regulatory environment has grown more critical of companies that rely on large numbers of contract laborers—laborers who no shortage of politicians, activists, and lawsuits have argued are misclassified.
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And unfortunately, the researchers believe their findings are an underestimate, as there are sure to be poisonings that don't make it into the database, as well as poisonings misclassified as accidental.
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All this information, once compiled, could be exposed through data breaches, sent to child data brokers or misclassified, which could lead to outing students or wrongly identifying innocent students as threats.
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Four of the 19 evaluated had very few symptoms or developmental difficulties, and researchers concluded they were "misclassified" as Zika babies, possibly because of errors in lab testing or head measurement.
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The Justice Department settlement centered on claims that Mylan misclassified the EpiPen as a generic product, which under Medicaid does not require the same level of rebates as brand-name products.
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On-demand food delivery startup DoorDash has reached an agreement with workers' rights lawyer Shannon Liss-Riordan regarding a class-action lawsuit that alleged DoorDash misclassified its delivery workers as independent contractors.
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But if your job sounds more like this, you may be an employee who has been — intentionally or unintentionally — misclassified: You get a regular paycheck and are expected to work certain hours.
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"CMS still needs to answer my questions on whether it exerts enough oversight of the Medicaid drug rebate program and when it first notified Mylan that the EpiPen was misclassified," he said.
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Drivers have previously taken on the $69 billion company in court, filing class action lawsuits alleging they were misclassified as independent contractors in an effort to obtain more employee benefits from Uber.
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Uber said in April it would pay up to $100 million to 385,000 drivers in California and Massachusetts who claimed they were misclassified and owed overtime pay, tips and reimbursements for expenses.
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The district court judge Chen is also presiding over a lawsuit against Uber by a class of drivers who claim they are being misclassified as independent contractors by the ride-hail company.
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There, the suit says, she was misclassified as the perpetrator of a sexual assault — not as a victim — attacked by an inmate, denied medication and punched in the face by a guard.
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In the study, the M.I.T. Media Lab found that the system misclassified women as men 19 percent of the time and mistook darker-skinned women for men 31 percent of the time.
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Researchers have found that women are often misclassified as Hispanic or Asian or other racial categories on missing-persons forms and that thousands have been left off a federal missing-persons database.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday rejected a challenge to a Florida federal judge's order that sent a proposed class action claiming Uber Technologies Inc misclassified drivers as independent contractors to individual arbitration.
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This means that by "using BMI categories as the main indicator of health, an estimated 74,936,678 U.S. adults are misclassified as cardiometabolically unhealthy or cardiometabolically healthy," the researchers conclude in the study's abstract.
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Federal judges in Florida and Maryland have sent proposed class actions claiming Uber Technologies Inc misclassified drivers as independent contractors to individual arbitration, rejecting claims that agreements that the drivers signed were invalid.
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On Thursday, Uber said it has reached settlement agreements with a large portion of the 60,000 drivers who had filed, or expressed they intend to file, arbitration demands asserting that they are misclassified.
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In fact, just a few hours after Uber announced the settlement, another group of drivers in Florida filed a suit seeking to organize drivers nationwide, alleging the company misclassified them as independent contractors.
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A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday asked the California Supreme Court to decide whether its 2018 ruling that made it easier for workers to prove they were misclassified as independent contractors applies retroactively.
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A federal appeals court has handed a defeat to Uber drivers who were suing the company in three separate lawsuits over claims that they were misclassified as independent contractors instead of full-time employees.
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It could be that the survey data is heavily based off the Surface Book and Surface Pro 4's failure rates and other factors such as "frozen or unresponsive touch" were misclassified as failures.
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The place was not quite paradise, because from time to time farmers gathered outside the village office to protest when their land was misclassified as protected forest and their claims to ownership were rebuffed.
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We need to clear answers on how deep this misclassification goes, how much it has cost taxpayers across the country, how many other drugs may be misclassified, and how we get that money back.
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So if you have a school bus image, you can change a pixel, a pixel, a pixel until it's misclassified as a banana but then the modified one looks just like the school bus.
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Two of them, Long Beach resident Lawrence Moss and Los Angeles resident Cigdem Akbay, are filing separate class action suits in Los Angeles Superior Court alleging that the streaming giant misclassified them as contractors.
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"This landmark ruling makes clear that Instacart employees have been misclassified as independent contractors, resulting in their being denied worker protections to which they are entitled by state law," Elliott said in a statement.
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The focus on the gig economy has obscured the more widespread impact of the new law in traditional businesses where workers — like the delivery drivers who sued in 2005 — have been misclassified for years.
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An arbitration agreement signed by an exotic dancer does not apply to her proposed class action claiming a New Jersey strip club misclassified dancers as independent contractors, a U.S. appeals court said on Thursday.
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"Joy Buolamwini, a researcher who found AI tools misclassified people's gender, told Business Insider: "There is a choice... I would encourage all companies to reexamine the identity labels they are using as demographic markers.
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Au pair agency Cultural Care Inc on Wednesday was hit with a proposed class action lawsuit claiming it misclassified the consultants who supervise au pairs as independent contractors and deprived them of overtime pay.
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In September 2015, Cynthia Marciano and Evan Kissner both separately filed lawsuits against DoorDash, alleging that DoorDash misclassified them and other delivery workers as independent contractors, and therefore violated certain provisions of the labor code.
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The drivers' lawyers at Sacks Weston Diamond filed a brief on Wednesday with the 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is the first appeals court to consider whether San Francisco-based Uber misclassified drivers.
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New Jersey has demanded that Uber pay $649 million for years of unpaid employment taxes for its drivers, arguing that the ride-hailing company has misclassified the workers as independent contractors and not as employees.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A U.S. health agency said on Wednesday it had "expressly advised" Mylan that the company had misclassified the EpiPen in a way that led to the company paying a lower rebate to states.
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The Postmates story began in July 22017, when Liss-Riordan's firm filed a complaint in state court in San Francisco, asserting claims under California's Private Attorney General Act that Postmates misclassified couriers as independent contractors.
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A nationwide class of more than 5,000 Uber Technologies Inc drivers on Tuesday proposed a $1.3 million settlement of their claims that Uber misclassified them as independent contractors and owed them minimum wage and overtime pay.
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Uber, in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week, said it would pay up to $170 million to settle tens of thousands of arbitration cases with drivers who claim they were misclassified.
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" They also claim that from 2016 to 2018, they did not receive overtime pay or "meal and rest breaks as mandated by law" and were "misclassified as independent contractors when they were clearly hired as employees.
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CMS told CNBC almost two weeks ago that the agency had repeatedly informed Mylan that the company had misclassified EpiPen as a generic, and as a result was shortchanging Medicaid by paying the lower rebate rate.
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He was convicted of 28 arson-related counts of murder, but decades later, after advances in fire investigation techniques showed that cases may have been misclassified as arson, Mr. Taylor's lawyers pushed for a new trial.
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Previously, the Census Bureau had used other methods to try to estimate the numbers of same-sex couples who lived together, but research shows that those methods could result in a large number of misclassified households.
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Another U.S. appeals court this week will consider whether drivers who make local deliveries for gig economy companies are involved in interstate commerce, in a case involving drivers who say Grubhub misclassified them as independent contractors.
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A San Francisco District judge threw out a $12.25 million settlement agreement between Lyft and a group of drivers who contended they had been misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees, saying it's not high enough.
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A federal appeals court on Thursday tossed out claims that cosmetics giant Mary Kay Inc misclassified sales workers as independent contractors, saying the proposed class action should have been filed in the company's home state of Texas.
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But after NBC New York and CNBC asked Cyberonics about a number of more recent patient deaths that were classified as injuries and malfunctions, the company did an internal review, finding a total of 108 misclassified deaths.
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Restaurant delivery service DoorDash Inc has agreed to pay $5 million to nearly 40,000 drivers in California who said they were misclassified as independent contractors, but the deal will have no effect on the workers' employment status.
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Judge Edward M. Chen declined to issue a ruling on the $100 million settlement between Uber and California drivers who say they were misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees, who often receive more benefits and protections.
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Now, she and her fellow gig workers are trying to one-up Deliveroo by making the slogan a reality: Mensakas is self-managed by its workers, who have employment contracts rather than being misclassified as independent contractors.
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FedEx Ground Package System Inc has moved to disqualify prominent plaintiffs' firm Lichten & Liss-Riordan from representing a nationwide class of delivery drivers who claim FedEx misclassified them as independent contractors and deprived them of overtime pay.
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Some of the recent policy changes have targeted areas that the IRS might use to determine whether employees are being misclassified as contractors, such as moving to a more flexible schedule for therapists, and adding unlimited vacation time.
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The big picture: EpiPen was misclassified as a generic drug within Medicaid, which resulted in Mylan paying less in rebates and causing taxpayers to overpay as much as $1.27 billion over 10 years, according to one government estimate.
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Other limitations include a lack of data on arrests or convictions to confirm childhood trauma or violent experiences in adulthood, as well as the possibility that the survey misclassified the gambling habits of some participants, the authors note.
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Image: Anh Nguyen, Jason Yosinski, Jeff CluneThere's also those adversarial examples that look very similar to a real image, like if you take a real image you change a few pixels and now it's misclassified as something else.
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The study published last year reported that Microsoft had a perfect score in identifying the gender of lighter-skinned men in a photo database, but that it misclassified darker-skinned women as men about one in five times.
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By manually reviewing and performing text searches on BPD's complaint data, we found 60 more complaints that alleged that BPD officers used just one racial slur — "n****r" — but all these complaints were misclassified as a lesser offense.
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The analysis also showed that while nearly 1.53 drugs may have been misclassified, in 2016 just four drugmakers were responsible for 54 percent of the potential misclassifications that led to the underpayments to the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program.
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The official said Mr. Feliciano was also misclassified as a member of MS-13, a brutally violent Salvadoran prison gang, when he was actually a member of Los Sureños, a Mexican gang that has roots in Southern California.
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To get a sense of how big this workforce is, consider this: When state tax investigators audited about 8,000 California businesses in 2017, they discovered nearly half a million employees had been misclassified or otherwise left off payrolls.
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The federal courts and the US Department of Labor decide who has been misclassified by weighing multiple factors, including how much control the company has over the worker and how central their work is to the company's operations.
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The memo signaled a sharp turn for the general counsel's office, which acts like a prosecutor in NLRB cases, and during the administration of Democratic President Barack Obama maintained that many gig-economy workers are misclassified as independent contractors.
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Uber, in a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission last week, said it would pay up to $170 million to settle tens of thousands of arbitration cases across the country with drivers who claim they were misclassified.
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If other drugs are misclassified, and surely EpiPen isn't the only one, the public deserves to know it, the taxpayers need to get their money back, and the process needs to be changed to stop this from happening again.
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Massachusetts' top state court has ruled that a federal law designed to rein in a patchwork of state regulations on the trucking industry does not block claims by furniture delivery drivers who say they were misclassified as independent contractors.
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A New York City bicycle messenger has sued Uber Technologies Inc, claiming the company misclassified couriers as independent contractors to avoid paying the minimum wage and covering their expenses, echoing claims in a series of lawsuits by Uber drivers.
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Many independent contractors are misclassified and will be converted to full-time employees, have their workload cut to 25 content submissions or less, or lose their roles completely — unless they can figure out how to pass the ABC test.
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Ideally, this person would also be in close communication with the media industry, helping news organizations understand the rules of the newsfeed and how to ensure that their articles aren't misclassified as fake or low-quality by Facebook's algorithms.
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Mylan said last month it intends to pay $465 million to settle with the U.S. Justice Department over charges it misclassified the EpiPen as a generic instead of a branded drug, thereby underpaying rebates owed to state and federal Medicaid programs.
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Couriers for the internet delivery company Postmates have asked a federal judge in Oakland, California to approve an $8.75 million settlement to resolve allegations that the company misclassified the workers as independent contractors in violation of state and federal wage laws.
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Details: EpiPen was misclassified as a generic drug within the Medicaid drug rebate program, which resulted in Mylan paying less in rebates and causing taxpayers to overpay as much as $1.27 billion over 10 years, according to one government estimate.
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Around 800 million pounds ($1 billion) was wiped off Metro Bank's market value after it said in January it had misclassified the risk weighting on a large book of loans, triggering regulatory probes and pressuring it to raise 350 million pounds.
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Around 800 million pounds ($20193 billion) was wiped off Metro Bank's market value after it said in January it had misclassified the risk weighting on a large book of loans, triggering regulatory probes and pressuring it to raise 350 million pounds.
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The head of the Medicaid and Medicare systems has said that Mylan was repeatedly told that it had misclassified the lifesaving EpiPen as a generic, as opposed to brand-name device for the purposes of a Medicaid drug rebate program.
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On the eve of its IPO, Uber revealed in a new regulatory filing that it has settled with thousands drivers over their claims of being misclassified as independent workers, and expects to spend $146 million to $170 million on the agreements.
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A technology company will pay approximately $1.5 million in wages and benefits to 140 workers whom the company misclassified in lower-paid positions in connection with their work on a federal government contract, the U.S. Labor Department announced on Thursday.
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Uber Technologies Inc drivers in Pennsylvania who say they were misclassified as independent contractors have asked a federal judge to reject the company's bid to pause the case pending approval of a proposed settlement of similar lawsuits in California and Massachusetts.
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A group of Uber Technologies Inc drivers in Philadelphia has asked a U.S. appeals court to revive their claims that the ride-hailing service misclassified them as independent contractors, saying they are not true business owners and Uber "economically dominates" them.
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In other words, with New Jersey serving as a precedent, other drivers, cities, and states could find it much easier to make the case that drivers are misclassified—allowing them to seek back pay, unemployment and disability taxes, and benefits.
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A federal judge has allowed the bulk of a lawsuit claiming Uber Technologies Inc misclassified drivers in Philadelphia as independent contractors to move forward, in one of the few cases of its kind against the ride-hailing company to escape arbitration.
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Uber Technologies Inc and the National Labor Relations Board have reached a stalemate over the agency's wide-ranging demands for documents that could show the company's drivers were misclassified as independent contractors rather than employees, according to a court filing.
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They said Mylan for years may have knowingly misclassified EpiPen as a generic product in order to avoid higher rebates the company would have had to pay state and federal Medicaid programs had it been classified as a branded product.
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And, Insider has discovered, although revenge porn carries a potential two-year prison sentence, it is rarely prosecuted because the language in the 2015 law has misclassified the crime as an offence under the Communications Act, and not a sex crime.
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The law is misclassified as a communications offence, not a sexual offenceSome of the victims who spoke to Insider opted not to report their case to the police because of the loophole in the law that prevents them from staying anonymous.
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Until 1870, the state allowed for residents to be counted only as white, black free or black slave, causing many Ramapoughs to be misclassified — a gap in genealogy that was filled with fallacies and folk tales by the surrounding white population.
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Booker would close loopholes that allow "gig economy" workers, like rideshare drivers, to be misclassified as contractors; seek to ban "right-to-work" laws that bar unions from requiring members to pay dues; and make it easier for employees to organize.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts revealed the accord on Thursday, 10 months after Mylan said it reached a deal resolving claims it misclassified the EpiPen as a generic rather than a branded product to avoid paying rebates owed to Medicaid.
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That complaint was part of a series of driver lawsuits against Uber alleging that the company had misclassified drivers as independent contractors when they really should have been classified as employees, and seeking the turnover of all proceeds from gratuities from riders.
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But as part of a settlement of a lawsuit that a group of drivers brought against the company, alleging they were misclassified as independent contractors and should be treated as employees, Uber had to stop saying the tip was included in the fare.
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Per that report, the car's radar and LIDAR sensors were able to detect an object in the path of the vehicle — Herzberg — about six seconds before the crash, but it misclassified her as an unknown object, then a vehicle, then finally a bicycle.
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Klobuchar on Friday released a statement saying the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services found that Mylan had misclassified the EpiPen as a generic drug, resulting in overpayment for the drug by states and the federal government through the Medicaid Drug Rebate Program.
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Slavitt said that EpiPen, which was purchased by Mylan in 2007, had been misclassified for the rebate program since late 1997, which "has financial consequences for the government" because it reduces the amount of rebates paid on Medicaid sales of the devices.
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A pair of surveillance specialists with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have filed a proposed collective action lawsuit claiming the agency misclassified them as exempt from overtime pay, and are seeking to remain anonymous because of the "sensitive nature" of their jobs.
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"AB5 is riding two waves: a longstanding effort to restore workplace protections to misclassified workers, and it comes on the heels of the techlash," said Alex Rosenblat, a technology ethnographer and author of Uberland: How Algorithms are Rewriting the Rules of Work.
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The U.S. Attorney's Office in Massachusetts revealed the accord on Thursday, 20063 months after Mylan said it reached a deal resolving claims it misclassified the EpiPen as a generic rather than a branded product, underpaying rebates to state Medicaid programs as a result.
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While the city has admitted in court that properties have been misclassified, it has generally refused to return property taxes to where they would be if the errors had not happened, tax attorneys said, locking the buildings permanently into the higher assessment.
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Another limitation of the study, which was funded by U.S. pharma company Amgen, is that women could have been misclassified as not having migraine if the headaches were diagnosed outside of a hospital or if they treated themselves with over-the-counter medications.
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On-demand startups like Uber and Postmates have spawned countless lawsuits from workers claiming they've been misclassified and underpaid, while platforms like Amazon Mechanical Turk have become infamous for pocketing 20 percent fees on microtasks that pay an average wage of $2 per hour.
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The suit is sure to draw attention, in part because it names the high-profile Kalanick personally but also because Uber is currently facing a class action suit that alleges it misclassified its drivers as independent contractors rather than employees, who often get more benefits.
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The Silicon Valley company defines fake accounts as profiles that are either designed to break its rules, for example by spammers or scammers impersonating others, or that are misclassified, such as someone setting up a Facebook profile instead of a Facebook page for a business.
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A U.S. appeals court on Wednesday gave Uber Technologies Inc drivers in New Jersey who claim they were misclassified as independent contractors another chance to prove that arbitration agreements they signed do not apply to their case because they were involved in interstate commerce.
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Rideshare Drivers United, a Los Angeles-based group that represents some 12,000 drivers, is pushing drivers to submit wage claims to the California Labor Commission, arguing that the ride-hail companies have "misclassified" workers who should be able to recoup expenses and back pay.
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Amazon.com Inc is set to argue in two federal appeals courts next week that federal judges were wrong to rule that the company's delivery drivers do not have to arbitrate claims that they were misclassified as independent contractors because they are engaged in interstate commerce.
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Some of the victims are misclassified as Asian or Hispanic, or are overlooked if they live in urban areas instead of reservations, or their cases are lost in a jurisdictional maze over which state, federal or tribal law enforcement agency bears responsibility for investigating.
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A federal judge in Massachusetts has certified a statewide class of about 100 Dynamex Operations East LLC drivers who delivered packages for Google's shopping service and say they were misclassified as independent contractors, even though they contracted to work with the company in different ways.
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The senators sent a letter asking Labor Department Secretary Tom Perez and Wage and Hour Division Administrator David Weil to probe if Wells Fargo denied their employees overtime or misclassified them under federal and state labor laws as overtime-exempt under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).
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A federal judge in California has ruled that a delivery driver for DoorDash Inc must arbitrate claims that the company misclassified him as an independent contractor, but said another driver who opted out of arbitration could step in as the lead plaintiff in the proposed class action.
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A law firm behind several cases claiming Uber Technologies Inc misclassified its drivers has asked a federal judge to remove the lead attorney from a similar lawsuit, saying a settlement she agreed to worth up to $100 million represents a fraction of what drivers are entitled to.
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According to a statement issued in December, FTI found that during the period 2012-2014, the developer had misclassified outstanding loan liabilities totalling 30.8 billion yuan and its former employees had attempted to obscure the existence of these 41 loan agreements involved through an elaborate scheme.
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By Daniel Wiessner Five current and former Uber Technologies Inc drivers have objected to the proposed settlement of a class action claiming they were misclassified as independent contractors, saying it was a "travesty" and a "joke" that would do little to remedy low wages and frustrating working conditions.
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But research data is notoriously flawed when it comes to tracking transgender people; not only did the CDC survey ignore the gender identity of respondents altogether, transgender women have historically been misclassified as "MSMs"—men who sleep with men—in studies tracking HIV rates in the LGBTQ community.
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He cited estimates that as many as one in 15 people experienced a manic episode during their lifetimes, and that bipolar disorder — characterized by swings from elation, hyperactivity and a decreased need for sleep to incapacitating depression — was often misclassified as schizophrenia or other illnesses, or undiagnosed altogether.
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Loree Levy, a spokeswoman for the California Employment Development Department, which oversees unemployment benefits, said by email that applicants who were not eligible for benefits because the state lacked their wage information could follow up, and that the department would investigate, awarding benefits if it deems them misclassified.
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The AG's office in a filing in federal court in Los Angeles on Friday said temporarily blocking the law known as AB5, which was signed in September, would further delay the state's ability to address what state lawmakers found was the widespread "exploitation" of workers misclassified as contractors rather than employees.
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In separate complaints filed in California state court in San Francisco on Thursday, drivers represented by Shannon Liss-Riordan of Lichten & Liss-Riordan say Uber and Lyft misclassified them as independent contractors rather than employees, who must be given at least 24 hours of paid sick leave per year under state law.
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In a May 22.4 letter seen by Reuters, Caius asked the EBA to examine a 250 billion euro ($21 billion) convertible bond issued in 230, which it said had been misclassified as Common Equity Tier (CET) 22011, or the best-quality capital held by a bank and a key measure of its financial strength.
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On the heels of a $400 million round at a $3.4 billion valuation, Instacart has agreed on a $4.65 million fee to settle a class-action lawsuit around claims that the on-demand grocery delivery startup misclassified its personal shoppers as independent contractors, and also failed to reimburse them for their work expenses, Recode reports.
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The 3rd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in a 2-1 decision disagreed with Jani-King Inc, represented by Faegre Baker Daniels, that 300 of its franchisees in Philadelphia could not sue as a class claiming they were misclassified as independent contractors because the company merely controlled its brand image and not working conditions.
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Jake Nicas at the New York Times in January laid out the complications: The Silicon Valley company defines fake accounts as profiles that are either designed to break its rules, for example by spammers or scammers impersonating others, or that are misclassified, such as someone setting up a Facebook profile instead of a Facebook page for a business.
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The Evercore analysis came two days after the head of the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services told a U.S. senator that Mylan had been repeatedly warned it was underpaying Medicaid in rebates for the auto-injectors by at least 22.4 percentage points because the drug has been misclassified by the company as a generic product as opposed to a brand-name one.
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"The report did explain some limits to using BMI: that "Service members with higher lean body mass may be misclassified as obese based on their BMI," that "not all Service members had a height or weight measurement available in the Vitals data each year," and that "BMI measures should be interpreted with caution, as some of them can be based on self-reported height and weight.
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The supervisors outline how, without help, gig workers "face many uncertainties, including housing and food insecurity, no access to health care, exposure to COVID-19 without safety training, sanitation and protective equipment…" Meanwhile, gig economy companies "continue to flout our state and city laws, leaving their misclassified employees without access to unemployment insurance, paid sick leave, medical benefits, workers' compensation, and other crucial benefits…," the resolution states.
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AND ALSO, WE SHOULD SAY LAST NIGHT IN ONE OF YOUR FILINGS, YOU SAID THAT YOU SETTLED THOUSANDS OF DRIVER CLAIMS OVER BEING MISCLASSIFIED AS INDEPENDENT WORKERS AND THAT YOU PLAN TO SPEND $146 MILLION TO $170 MILLION DO YOU ANTICIPATE THERE'S GOING TO BE MORE SUITS LIKE THIS KHOSROWSHAHI: I THINK THE QUESTION OF CLASSIFICATION'S GOING TO GO ON FOR SOME TIME BECAUSE LABOR IS SUCH AN IMPORTANT PART OF ANY SOCIETY'S MEANS.
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Elizabeth WarrenElizabeth Ann WarrenTop Sanders adviser: Warren isn't competing for 'same pool of voters' Eight Democratic presidential hopefuls to appear in CNN climate town hall In shift, top CEOs say shareholder value not top goal MORE (D-Mass.), wrote to Labor Secretary Tom Perez and Wage and House Division Administrator David Weil on Thursday to ask the agency to look into allegations that the bank denied employees overtime or misclassified them under federal and state labor laws.
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