That deal would also not reclassify the drivers as employees.
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That is, reclassify them as nonexempt and limit their overtime hours.
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The company is also taking steps to reclassify its Californian workers.
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It also reversed multiple FCC precedents to reclassify broadband as telecommunications.
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The government has repeatedly rejected appeals over the years to reclassify marijuana.
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The settlement also doesn't reclassify the drivers as employees, which some of criticized.
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Beyond Instacart, the AB5 ruling could force other apps to reclassify their workers.
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Facebook bowed to pressure from shareholders and abandoned a plan to reclassify its shares.
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If it comes to that, we will have to reclassify what human beings are.
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That eventually prompted the International Astronomical Union to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet.
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But the FCC's current proposal would reclassify ISPs as information companies instead of telecommunications companies.
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Additionally, once found to have misclassified workers, the business must reclassify the workers as employees.
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Eight Democratic legislators had urged the D.E.A. to reclassify marijuana to a Schedule 2 drug.
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The complaint asked the court to issue an injunction requiring the company to reclassify drivers.
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Legislators in Haryana promised on Monday to introduce new legislation to reclassify the Jats as backward.
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One bill attempted to retroactively remove the FCC's ability to reclassify broadband; it never had legs.
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California approved a landmark bill to reclassify contractors for companies like Uber and Lyft as employees.
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AB25's intention — to protect and reclassify truly victimized and misclassified workers — is noble and worthy.
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It would make companies reclassify many independent contractors as employees, something Uber and Lyft have opposed.
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The council voted to reclassify the feminine hygiene products as "medical necessities," exempting them from taxation.
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A government directive last month will force banks to reclassify as NPL $8 billion worth of debt.
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So far, the services have not had to reclassify their workers despite threats from politicians and lawsuits.
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In terms of tech specifically, there could be moves to reclassify certain platforms and infrastructure as utilities.
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Fear not, the bank's executive promised, it would reclassify subsidiaries of big state firms as smaller entities.
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Legislators in California are debating a bill, known as AB5, that would reclassify gig workers as employees.
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The inmates are also facing further disciplinary action that could reclassify the severity of their custody level.
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First, the DC Circuit affirmed that the FCC had ample authority to reclassify ISPs as common carriers.
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"The powers at GICS have made a very rational, academic decision to reclassify these sectors," Stewart said.
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But it doesn't require them to reclassify the workers — a significant win for the ride-hail company.
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If Uber ultimately was forced to reclassify drivers, it would most likely limit driver flexibility, West said.
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The law empowers city officials to sue any violating companies for failing to properly reclassify their workers.
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Two years ago, 4 million people demanded that the FCC reclassify broadband ISPs to protect net neutrality.
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In 2015, a Recode analysis estimated it would cost Uber $209 million to reclassify 45,000 drivers in California.
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"It would have a significant cost implication if they were to reclassify their drivers as employees," says Rowland.
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Drivers and city attorneys can sue Uber and Lyft to get the company to reclassify them as employees.
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In 2015, a Recode analysis estimated it would cost Uber $209 million to reclassify 45,000 drivers in California.
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It will reclassify EpiPen and pay the rebate applicable to its new classification as of April 1, 2017.
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MSCI will also take a decision on whether to reclassify the Argentina index as an emerging markets index.
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This means the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) will have to reclassify CBD before GW can begin marketing Epidiolex.
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If states choose to reclassify certain benefits as non-essential, insurers could bring back annual and lifetime limits.
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No justification should be considered to reclassify the money that US citizens will use to rebuild their communities.
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The companies have been fighting a California bill that could force them to reclassify their drivers as employees.
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A spokesperson for Lyft similarly told Recode that the company has no immediate plans to reclassify its drivers.
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But it also creates a tempting loophole for many others to reclassify their personal income as business income.
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The profits and valuations of these companies would be severely affected if they had to reclassify drivers as employees.
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"Your adjustments have caused PENNY to reclassify this area as a MEDIUM-LOW median income area," the AI said.
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The wealthy may try to "reclassify themselves as pass through entities to lower their individual tax rate," said Helmstetter.
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This announcement came just after news broke that Facebook would be withdrawing a plan to reclassify the company's stock.
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After the vote to reclassify shares was passed, Andreessen congratulated his buddy Zuckerberg with an easy-to-decipher tweet.
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One was to reclassify broadband as telecommunications, but he was worried this would rock the boat, and rightly so.
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The FCC rejects this fundamental idea and substitutes a convenient fiction that upholds its current ambition to reclassify broadband.
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Various ongoing investigations over worker classification could eventually require the company to reclassify drivers as employees, the IPO explains.
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Because of this, the FCC decided to reclassify high-speed internet as a utility back in February of 2015.
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In the 70s and 80s, however, second-wave feminists organized to reclassify incest as an act of sexual abuse.
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And what had then caused the agent to reclassify me, rethink me, re-sort me into the other category?
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The proposal would free airlines from the requirement to accommodate passengers' emotional support animals and reclassify them as pets.
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The California Senate is considering a bill that would reclassify hundreds of thousands of gig-economy workers as employees.
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It would also remove the "general conduct" rule and reclassify mobile broadband so it won't be a telecommunication service either.
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To gain regulatory authority and establish rules mandating ISPs uphold net neutrality, the FTC voted in 2015 to reclassify broadband.
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He (in)famously opposed President Obama advocating having the FCC reclassify broadband internet as a utility like water or electricity.
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The next step, whether it's a legislative compromise in Congress or an FCC vote to reclassify service providers, is unclear.
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Trump's plan would make it easy for them to reclassify their compensation as business income, taxed at only 15 percent.
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They hope the federal government will reclassify cannabis ("a huge undertaking," Dr. Briscoe admitted), reducing obstacles to much-needed research.
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So there was suddenly a big incentive for people to find a way to reclassify their income as business income.
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As a result, I've asked our board to withdraw the proposal to reclassify our stock -- and the board has agreed.
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Pai, a former Verizon lawyer, has told CNBC that he opposes net neutrality policies that reclassify broadband as a public utility.
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The fact is that, short of actual treason, the president has enormous latitude to reveal, reclassify, and even declassify our secrets.
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Trump's FCC pick, Ajit Pai, has told CNBC that he opposes net neutrality policies that reclassify broadband as a public utility.
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Once the nation&aposs top recruit decided to reclassify for this season, the Blue Devils became the voters&apos clear choice.
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Few expect the federal government to reclassify pot, or Congress to protect banks that handle marijuana money, as California's treasury wishes.
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If those names ring a bell, it's because Brown and Batygin worked to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet in 2006.
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But last year, when the agency voted to reclassify the internet, it said allowing zero rating would not necessarily harm competition.
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Uber is currently negotiating a major class action lawsuit that is seeking to reclassify drivers as employees rather than independent contractors.
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California lawmakers have approved a landmark bill that could force Uber, Lyft and other companies to reclassify independent contractors as employees.
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"The medicine allows them to look at things from a different place and reclassify them," said Ms. Mithoefer, a psychiatric nurse.
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Indeed, composers can often find a more appreciative audience if they reclassify their music as an installation or as performance art.
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Other states, like New Jersey and Connecticut, have been moving forward with similar plans to reclassify state taxes as charitable contributions.
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"Uber is grasping at straws," Ms. Liss-Riordan said of Uber's argument that it did not need to reclassify its drivers.
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Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg will no longer try to reclassify the company's stock, settling a major class-action lawsuit with shareholders.
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The new bill gives HHS the explicit authority to reclassify drugs, recover incorrect rebate payments, and fine drugmakers that knowingly misclassify drugs.
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The newly finalized regulations would reclassify some forms of debt as equity, changing tax-exempt interest payments into dividends that are taxed.
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In fact, there are several pieces of legislation presently pending before federal lawmakers that, if enacted, would either reclassify or declassify marijuana.
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Now, rather than give into attempts to reclassify workers, Uber is turning to the government to plead for help on their behalf.
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California's legislature passed a bill that will compel firms in the gig economy to reclassify their workers as employees rather than contractors.
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In the interim, New Zealand Governor General Patsy Reddy has signed an order to reclassify some semi-automatic weapons as "military-style".
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Uber has claimed the bill will not require it to reclassify the drivers, and Khosrowshahi echoed those statements when speaking with Amanpour.
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Paiboon hinted at a radical shift in policy, saying he wanted to reclassify meth to reduce sentences for possessing and dealing the drug.
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The Grassley-Wyden bill gives HHS the explicit authority to reclassify drugs, recover incorrect rebate payments and fine companies that knowingly misclassify drugs.
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"Of course we support the decision to reclassify as another instrument the liabilities of VEB before the Bank of Russia," Ulyukayev told journalists.
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It is likely that the DEA will reclassify CBD in the next 90 days, says Stephanie Yip, an analyst at Informa Pharma Intelligence.
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The update came as ride-hailing drivers rallied in support of legislation in California that would reclassify them as employees rather than contractors.
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He defended the company's position that it would not reclassify its drivers as employees in light of a recently passed bill in California.
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Gavin Newsom, could force many gig-economy companies to reclassify their workers as employees thanks to the codification of a three-part test.
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While enlistment bonuses for fresh recruits range from $20,000 to $0003,000, selective retention bonuses scale from $1,000 to $72,000 for soldiers who reclassify.
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On Friday, California lawmakers passed a bill that could force companies like Uber and Lyft to reclassify independent contractors as full-time employees.
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In 2006, the International Astronomical Union decided to reclassify Pluto as a dwarf planet, to the fury and confusion of the American public.
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The ATF is reportedly reconsidering its February 2015 proposal to reclassify certain ammunition, but many Obama holdovers and career types remain in power.
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Uber has refused to reclassify drivers, maintaining that drivers are not employees because they set their own schedules and provide their own cars.
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The new bill would allow banks to reclassify many of these loans in such a way that they avoid the higher capital requirement.
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The recent passage of a law known as AB5 in California could reclassify many of the state's roughly 200,000 gig workers as employees.
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The DEA rejected a petition to reclassify marijuana last year, and Attorney General Jeff Sessions has consistently opposed efforts to legalize the drug.
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The FCC's website crashed, Oliver's segment brought unprecedented attention to the issue, and the commission decided to reclassify internet service as a common carrier.
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The debate echoes the fight over net neutrality, when the FCC moved to reclassify the internet as an information service, ending net neutrality protections.
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In 2015, the FCC moved to reclassify ISPs as "common carriers," laying the legal foundation for the agency's net neutrality and broadband privacy protections.
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"We are not looking to reclassify because the number one thing our 'Taskers' want is flexibility," TaskRabbit Chief Operating Officer Stacy Brown-Philpot said.
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Had Uber been forced to reclassify its drivers from independent contractors to employees, the company may have had to significantly alter its business model.
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In California, app drivers scored a significant win with the passage of Assembly Bill 2700, which will force companies to reclassify drivers as employees.
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After her experience, Short has become vocal about the need to reclassify lying to one's sexual partner as a form of criminal sexual assault.
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The broadband industry is particularly opposed to the FCC's decision to reclassify broadband companies as "common carriers" under Title II of the Communications Act.
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Then there's the fact that taxing pass-through income at a lower rate is regressive, even if it didn't encourage people to reclassify income.
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China has resumed purchases of American soybeans and announced it would reclassify fentanyl, which has fueled the American opioid epidemic, as a controlled substance.
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Gavin Newsom in September and set to go into effect Wednesday, will force the companies to reclassify gig workers as employees instead of contractors.
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He has spearheaded initiatives to reclassify most drug offenses as misdemeanors, opened up reintegration centers for inmates prior to release, and enacted bail reform.
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Despite the companies' efforts, California's state legislature passed a bill this month forcing companies like Uber and Lyft to reclassify their contractors as employees.
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Why it matters: That means Uber will stay put unless and until it loses a challenge in court and is forced to reclassify drivers.
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It's another sign that drivers and labor advocates face a steep — if impossible — hill to climb to force Uber to reclassify its drivers as employees.
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In a written statement to Reuters, Sberbank said that it had to reclassify some it its assets following the reform of credit ratings in Russia.
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Decisions by other companies to reclassify their independent contractors as employees were interpreted as an attempt to pre-empt an inevitable crack-down from regulators.
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If Uber settles that case, like Lyft recently did in a similar class action, it may be able to avoid having to reclassify its drivers.
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A movement is now underway to reclassify stretches of highway that pass through cities as roads after the proposal was approved by the Supreme Court.
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Federal law grants the U.S. attorney general the ability to reclassify a controlled substance if the available scientific evidence no longer supports that drug's classification.
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It turns out that VISA issuers and Mastercard decided (how convenient!) to reclassify the way Bitcoin and other cryptocurrency purchases are processed on their networks.
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When corporate tax rates are lower than individual ones, that creates an incentive to reclassify individual income as corporate income to pay the lower rates.
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Under the GOP plan, they would also get to reclassify themselves as corporations to take advantage of "pass-through" income at a reduced tax rate.
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YogaWorks instructors asked for recognition of a union the same day California passed a bill that will reclassify gig workers in the state as employees.
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A former Uber executive told The Information that the company's costs would rise by 20 percent if it were forced to reclassify its workers worldwide.
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An Uber executive told The Information that the company's costs would rise by 20 percent if were forced to reclassify its workers as employees worldwide.
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Even if Mr. Trump and Congress are unwilling to reclassify marijuana, they could remove the regulatory barriers to research and let scientists get to work.
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It's time for Congress to take Zuckerberg at his word and reclassify Facebook and the other social media giants not as gateways but as publishers.
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In November 28503, President Obama directed the FCC to reclassify consumer broadband service as a utility under Title II of the Communications Act of 22019.
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The Intelligence Committee voted unanimously on Monday to release the document drafted by the panel's Democrats, contingent on the Republican president agreeing to reclassify it.
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The new feature comes just weeks after the Federal Communications Commission voted to reclassify text messages as information services in an attempt to fight phone spam.
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There is no indication in the FBI interview summaries that Kennedy was directed by Hillary Clinton or her campaign to attempt to reclassify or hide emails.
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However, the government could reclassify the pill—meaning that pharmacists didn't have to consult with patients before prescribing it—in effect lowering the cost to consumers.
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In fact, FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler's original idea was to reclassify as a Title II service only the termination side of the two-sided broadband market.
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One of his proposals would allow the state pharmacy board to reclassify ibogaine, psilocybin and MDMA, also known as ecstasy, for medicinal purposes and remove penalties.
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Colorado lawmakers are weighing a bill to allow the state's marijuana industry to reclassify pot ahead of a potential federal crackdown, The Associated Press reported Saturday.
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A bill that would reclassify the drug as a controlled substance and increase the charge for selling it to a felony from a misdemeanor has stalled.
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In August 2016, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) announced it would temporarily reclassify kratom as a Schedule 1 drug, a class that includes heroin and marijuana.
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Perhaps at the point at which we permit the networks and streaming services and media who cover them to shame us, to reclassify viewership as consumption.
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But a new law in California, known as AB 5 will reclassify many gig workers in the state as employees, providing them a pathway to unionization.
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The gritty details: He'll lay make a high-level case against his predecessor's move to reclassify broadband service as a utility in a speech Wednesday, sources said.
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A federal court agreed, ruling that the FCC would need to reclassify internet service providers as "Title II common carriers" if it wanted to impose its regulations.
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Next year, U.S. index provider MSCI will decide whether to reclassify its Kuwait index from the current frontier-market status to its widely used emerging-market benchmark.
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The settlement did not reclassify the drivers as employees, a point that led the Teamsters union and five Lyft drivers to file formal objections to the deal.
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Internet providers do not oppose net neutrality principles, but opposed the decision to reclassify internet service under a law that subjects them to potential utility style regulation.
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One way workers might have been able to try to take advantage of the deduction would have been to reclassify themselves as independent contractors of their companies.
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Uber and Lyft have been at the center of a debate surrounding California's landmark bill that could force companies to reclassify independent contractors as full-time employees.
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Index provider MSCI said late on Wednesday it would reclassify Argentina and Saudi Arabia as emerging market countries next year, broadening the investor base for both countries.
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Uber and other companies relying on gig workers like Lyft and DoorDash have opposed a new law in California that aims to reclassify its workers as employees.
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Uber would likely have to reclassify tens of thousands of drivers in California as employees — something Uber drivers have been fighting for in court, unsuccessfully, for years.
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California recently enacted a law that aims to reclassify gig workers as employees, which Uber has challenged in a lawsuit with Postmates and two of its contractors.
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More and more communities affected by the crisis have been coming together and agitating to reclassify drug overdoses as homicides, so they can charge dealers as murderers.
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Several foreign vendors contesting how Sears Holdings Corp would reclassify their claims in its bankruptcy on Friday appealed an order last month approving the retailer's reorganization plan.
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Investment declined around the Federal Communications Commission's 2015 absurd decision to reclassify internet service providers (ISPs) as common carriers under Title II of the 1934 Communications Act.
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Less than 24 hours after AB 5 passed, a class-action lawsuit was filed arguing for the state to force Uber to reclassify its drivers as employees.
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As such, manufacturers support provisions in the conference report that would create a transparent and regularized process for CBP to review and act to reclassify such imports.
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Meanwhile, in California, politicians at the state level have introduced legislation to reclassify gig economy workers, including Uber drivers, as full-time employees rather than contract workers.
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Uber drivers, freelance writers, and anyone who files their taxes with a 1099-MISC form can easily create a business to reclassify their earnings as business income.
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The problem is that in 2014, a federal court ruled that in order for the FCC to enforce net neutrality, it would have to reclassify internet service providers.
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Since the Lyft settlement does not reclassify drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, it is not a slam-dunk victory for the drivers that brought the lawsuit.
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The FCC's move to reclassify broadband came after President Barack Obama publicly urged the commission to protect consumers by regulating internet service as it does other public utilities.
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But Judges David Tatel and Sri Srinivasan denied all challenges to the new rules, including claims that the FCC could not reclassify mobile broadband as a common carrier.
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Last week the 100-share benchmark index hit an all-time high on anticipation MSCI will reclassify Pakistan from its Frontier Market segment into the Emerging Markets category.
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As part of the proposed settlements, Uber could pay as much as $100 million and Lyft roughly $27 million, but neither company has agreed to reclassify their workers.
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In 2628, the FCC made the controversial decision to reclassify broadband Internet access as a "common carrier" telecommunications service under Title II of the Communications Act of 28500.
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In order to close the gap, the service is offering massive enlistment bonuses topping out at $40,000 for new recruits and up to $72,000 for soldiers who reclassify.
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To add insult to injury, affluent Americans earning over $85033,000 a year have been able to reclassify their income to save yet more on taxes through corporate breaks.
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Lyft will not have to reclassify its drivers as employees after reaching a settlement yesterday, in which it agreed to pay $12.25 million extra in compensation and benefits.
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Many legal experts have said the city could immediately reclassify five of the eight specialized schools, allowing Mr. de Blasio to change their admissions criteria without the Legislature.
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But a new law in California that aims to reclassify these gig workers as full-time employees could pose an existential threat to that way of doing business.
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Meanwhile, Weatherford said in November that it would reclassify $158 million in receivables owed from its largest customer in Venezuela as non-current assets to reflect payment delays.
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Uber insisted on Wednesday that it may not have to reclassify its drivers as employees despite a newly passed California bill that would appear to require just that.
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The New York Times reported Tuesday that in a bid to combat anti-Semitism on college campuses President Donald Trump was planning to reclassify Judaism as a nationality.
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California's AB 5 not only threatens to reclassify Uber's drivers from independent contractors to employees in the state but to inspire other states and cities to follow suit.
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Trump has also opposed the Obama administration's "net neutrality" rules, ordered in 2015 by the communications regulator to reclassify broadband internet services to treat them more like public utilities.
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The law is intended to reclassify gig workers from independent contractors to employees, granting them a whole new set of labor rights and protections they had previously been denied.
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Epidiolex treats severe forms of childhood epilepsy — but the Drug Enforcement Administration will need to reclassify this form of cannabis before the drug can be put on the market.
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These dissidents are calling for the companies to reclassify their status from independent contractor to employee, the better for them to partake of benefits offered to full-time workers.
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A discreet lobbying campaign is building momentum within the country to try to reclassify higher-grade copper scrap as a way of removing it from the "garbage" hit-list.
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The agreement: Mylan will reclassify the EpiPen as a brand name drug, which will recalculate the amount it pays to the program in rebates starting retroactively in April 2017.
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The current word is that Trump will call on Israel to reclassify a handful of Jerusalem neighborhoods that are already almost entirely Palestinian as part of the West Bank.
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If passed, the law would allow marijuana growers to reclassify their recreational pot as medical pot in the event that the Trump administration adopts a stricter drug enforcement policy.
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In a letter addressed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai on Monday, 10 US Senators urged the search giant's leadership to reclassify temporary or contract workers as full-time employees.
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Sunak said he was studying "with interest" proposals to reclassify some government spending as investment which would give him more room for manoeuvre with public spending, the Telegraph said.
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Yet instead of seeking another Division III conference, St. Thomas chose a bold, unusual path: petitioning the N.C.A.A. for a waiver to reclassify directly to Division I in 0003.
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Similarly to Lyft, Uber warns that should it "fail the test" via a legal challenge and be forced to reclassify its drivers, the circumstances of their work would change.
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After Russia's interference with the 2016 election, for instance President Barack Obama felt the need to reclassify American elections as critical infrastructure to fall under the policy's protective umbrella.
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The DEA could also reclassify CBD, but leave cannabis itself at Schedule I. Epidiolex treats two forms of epilepsy, Dravet syndrome and Lennox-Gastaut syndrome, which rarely respond to treatment.
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The FWS said Thursday it will reclassify the San Miguel Island fox, Santa Rosa Island fox, and Santa Cruz Island fox as threatened species, which affords the animals fewer protections.
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Uber and Lyft have been fighting a proposed bill in California, AB 5, that could potentially compel gig economy companies to reclassify many of their independent contract workers as employees.
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But the improvement was significant enough, at least in the lab, that rehabilitation specialists could reclassify Mr. Burkhart's disability from a severe C5 function to a less severe C7 designation.
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Some lawmakers are also pushing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) to reclassify bump stocks, making them unavailable to most consumers without the need for congressional action.
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The Obama administration announced Thursday that it is lifting a major barrier to marijuana research, though it rejected the latest state petitions to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
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The Agriculture Department proposal unveiled Tuesday would allow road construction and reclassify forest area -- including "165,000 old-growth acres" -- of the huge Tongass National Forest in the panhandle of southeastern Alaska.
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For one, it would push the Drug Enforcement Administration to reclassify marijuana from a schedule 1 to a schedule 2 substance, which could relax some of the restrictions on the drug.
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Moore says that by filing wage theft claims en masse with the California Labor Commissioner, drivers hope to put pressure on the state to enforce AB5 and reclassify them as employees.
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To do that, the proposal will have to reclassify internet providers as information services, under Title I of the Communications Act, instead of common carriers, under Title II of the Act.
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The issue gained even greater prominence when President Obama publicly urged FCC Chairman Tom Wheeler to reclassify broadband companies as common carriers, infuriating the industry and its allies on Capitol Hill.
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The attorney who helped a group of Facebook shareholders sue to stop Mark Zuckerberg's plan to reclassify the company's shares says the CEO's "biggest weakness" is a board that lacks diversity.
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Lenders' NPL ratio is expected to rise to 6.3% by year end after the BDDK regulator told them in September to reclassify some $8 billion in loans and provision for losses.
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Here's what will happen if this rule takes effect as proposed: many employers across the country will suddenly find themselves needing to reclassify large amounts of employees from salaried to hourly.
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The grassroots Ohio Safe and Healthy Communities Campaign has backed a constitutional amendment that would reclassify the lowest-level drug felonies as misdemeanors and call for more state funding for treatment.
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But Uber's top lawyer, Tony West, said Wednesday the company won't reclassify its drivers as employees on January 1, because the company believes it can pass the law's three-part test.
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On Tuesday, India's parliament voted to reclassify the state of Jammu and Kashmir as a union territory, giving the government in New Delhi greater authority over the contested Muslim-majority region.
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PARIS, March 4 (Reuters) - France's high court has granted an Uber driver's request to reclassify his contractual relationship with the ride-hailing operator as an employment contract, it said on Wednesday.
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There was a reason kratom was so present in Day's social feeds in 2016: The DEA had just stated its intent to ban kratom and reclassify it as Schedule 1 drug.
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" In August, the US Drug Enforcement Administration rejected a pair of petitions that sought to reclassify the substance, claiming, "There are no adequate or well-controlled studies that determine marijuana's efficacy.
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DUBAI, Dec 19 (Reuters) - MSCI Inc said late on Wednesday it will reclassify the MSCI Kuwait Indexes to emerging markets as the Kuwaiti equity market had met all the necessary requirements.
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Zuckerberg wanted to reclassify Facebook's stock so he could sell shares — to fund the ambitious philanthropic projects he and his wife, Priscilla Chan, are leading — while retaining control of the company.
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The plan to reclassify Facebook's stock — and free up Zuckerberg for government endeavors — has been put on hold, pending the results of a lawsuit where investors complain the arrangement wasn't brokered fairly.
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The classification of drivers as independent contractors is necessary to Uber's financial future, the company says, and any attempt to reclassify them as full-time employees would result in huge monetary losses.
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The main body regulating British statistics said the ONS's quarterly immigration data no longer met the highest standards, and backed its decision to reclassify the numbers as 'experimental' until they were improved.
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We're all now awaiting the Supreme Court case, which will more likely focus on whether or not ISPs have first amendment rights rather than whether the FCC has authority to reclassify industries.
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The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services announced today that it has struck a deal with Mylan to reclassify the EpiPen, which will save the Medicaid program hundreds of millions of dollars.
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But all of these class-action suits pale in importance to the one that will go to trial in June, which seeks to reclassify Uber drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors.
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The order was non-binding, but could prove bothersome for the company as it fights against a class action lawsuit brought by drivers in California that seeks to reclassify them as employees.
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The Wheeler FCC's decision to reclassify broadband as a Title II utility and impose net neutrality coincidentally brought with the FCC's pre-Internet telephone privacy rule authority, which is called Section 222.
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The FCC's controversial decision last year to reclassify broadband Internet as a telecommunications service also gave it new authority to police the privacy practices of companies like Comcast, Verizon and AT&T.
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Before the Food and Drug Administration can be petitioned to reclassify the drug, though, it has to clear extensive study and trials, which can take more than five years, the researchers wrote.
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The legislation will make it more difficult for some owners to transport some kinds of guns without permission and will reclassify two broad types of rifles to restrict their sale and ownership.
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On August 6, India's parliament voted to reclassify the state of Jammu and Kashmir as a union territory, giving the government in New Delhi greater authority over the contested Muslim-majority region.
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Uber Chief Legal Officer Tony West acknowledged that the new test is stringent, but argued that Uber would not have to reclassify its drivers when the law takes effect in January 2020.
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Health officials said that they would reclassify patients who had tested positive for the new coronavirus but did not have symptoms, and take them out of the total count of confirmed cases.
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Reclassify them as an employeeIf the above isn&apost possible, or if the independent contractor isn&apost open to having their type or amount of work changed, consider making them an employee.
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California's recently passed AB 5 bill that could reclassify independent contractors like drivers as employees is a reaction to the low wages, missing benefits, and lack of representation in the gig economy.
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Last week, Turkey's BDDK financial watchdog said banks would need to reclassify as non-performing loans (NPLs) 46 billion ($8.13 billion) lira worth of debt, and provision for losses, by year end.
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Despite the clear trend occurring at the state level and the overwhelming support among voters to legalize marijuana for medical purposes, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) recently rejected calls to reclassify marijuana.
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The guidance attempts to make it difficult for workers who previously were treated as employees by a company to reclassify themselves as independent contractors in order to secure the 20 percent deduction.
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While individual drivers and labor groups will take the companies to court to force them to reclassify contractors as employees, the companies will promote a 2020 ballot measure to undo the law.
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Following the meeting, early Uber investors Shervin Pishevar and Steve Russell called the board vote "unfair and illegal," and pledged to "[move] forward with a class action lawsuit" over vote to reclassify stock.
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"Next quarter, we expect to reclassify certain personnel costs from G&A to Content and Marketing, and from Technology & Development to Other Cost of Revenues," the company wrote in a note to shareholders.
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A team of economists looking at taxpayer data has found that the main effect has been for people to simply reclassify their income to dodge taxes, while not actually starting any new businesses.
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Photo: GettyThe last time we had a major fight over net neutrality, the "Internet Slowdown Day" protests were credited with helping push the FCC to reclassify the internet as a Title II utility.
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Why it matters: Uber and other gig economy companies have long fought against lawsuits and other attempts to reclassify their workers as employees, which would require they pay for benefits like health insurance.
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Three bankers told Reuters on Tuesday that the central bank had verbally instructed them to reclassify "available for sale" bonds and bills, which are tradeable on the secondary market, as "held to maturity".
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Uber says that nearly 50 percent of its drivers work 10 or less hours a week, which it uses to argue against the push to reclassify drivers as employees rather than independent contractors.
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The reclassification will avert surgery and radiation for about 15 percent of the 65,000 Americans told they have thyroid cancer annually, and may also bolster efforts to reclassify some breast and prostate lesions.
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The expanding gig economy has attracted attention from US lawmakers seeking to better regulate workplace practices and reclassify independent contractors in order for them to qualify for benefits afforded to full-time employees.
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In 2015, the FCC voted to reclassify internet broadband as a "telecommunications service" under Title II, effectively institutionalizing net neutrality, handing a win to open internet advocates, and a loss to big telecom.
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Uber: The company's chief legal officer said that a new California law would not require it to reclassify contract workers as employees, taking the position that drivers are not core to its business.
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"This is actually a small upward revision ... What we've said was that we would get a better result than in 2016 and when we reclassify the result last year was actually negative," Stausholm.
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FCC chair Ajit Pai's plan to repeal net neutrality provisions and reclassify broadband providers from "common carriers" to "information services" is an unprecedented giveaway to big broadband providers and a danger to the internet.
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The only visible change Facebook seemed to make was to change the phrasing of the targeting tool from "ethnic affinity" to "multicultural affinity," and to reclassify it as a behavior instead of a demographic.
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That is because all three judges who decided the case — even Judge Stephen Williams, who dissented — agreed that the FCC had authority to reclassify internet service, the question at the heart of the case.
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It has strongly resisted efforts by scientists, state officials and federal lawmakers to reclassify marijuana by rejecting or refusing to acknowledge evidence that marijuana is not nearly as harmful as federal law treats it.
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As the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities' Chye-Ching Huang, Chuck Marr, and Joel Friedman explain, this would create a massive incentive for individuals to reclassify personal wage income as income from business.
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According to Maya Pinto of the National Employment Law Project, a nonprofit worker-advocacy group that has just published a report on the topic, the broader measures encourage companies to reclassify employees as contractors.
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Khan's address comes a week after India's parliament voted to reclassify the Indian state of Jammu and Kashmir as a union territory, allowing New Delhi greater authority over the country's only Muslim-majority region.
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Efforts to reclassify Mr. Epstein's donations as anonymous "made it impossible for all but a select few to see the number or amount of Epstein donations," the school's executive committee said in a statement.
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More than two years ago, the commission voted to reclassify broadband internet access as a "common carrier" under Title II of the Telecommunications Act, designating the internet a utility no different from water or electricity.
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Using the using the Congressional Resolution Act (CRA) process, Democratic lawmakers and activists are hoping to restore the Obama-era regulations and force the FCC to reclassify broadband under Title II of the Communications Act.
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In California, lawmakers are trying to pass legislation that would codify a court ruling forcing gig economy companies to reclassify their workers as employees — which would mean they have to pay the baseline local minimum.
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For example, in the United States, the Drug Enforcement Administration considers marijuana a Schedule 1 drug "with no currently accepted medical use," though there are efforts underway to reclassify marijuana as a less dangerous drug.
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MSCI said in a statement announcing its decision that it would reclassify Peru as a frontier market if at any point it no longer had at least three securities that qualify as emerging market investments.
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Activists were particularly concerned by the removal of the promised threshold increase, and the proposal to reclassify illegal weed possession as an offense in the federal penal code rather than a violation of health legislation.
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This idea to reclassify smartphone data as broadband was first proposed in August, but with the net neutrality repeal out of the way, the FCC is expected to vote on the proposal by February 3.
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The White House rejected a petition this past week to reclassify the drug in a less strict category, though federal authorities say they will start letting more facilities grow marijuana for the purpose of research.
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The Argentine government has hiked short-term interest rates to almost 80% and has moved to unilaterally reclassify the maturities of its short-term debts, a move that is likely to cause concerns among investors.
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Congresswoman Norma Torres (CA-35), herself a former 911 dispatcher, has proposed the 911 SAVES Act, which would reclassify 911 telecommunication as a "protective service occupation"—the same classification as firefighters, paramedics, and police officers.
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A proposed California law could also represent a major threat to Uber and Lyft's business models should it pass through the state Senate, as it would force the companies to reclassify their drivers as employees.
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Uber is confident that a California bill codifying stricter requirements for classifying workers as independent contractors, which is on its way to become law, won't force the firm to reclassify its drivers in the state.
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The state court found "a sufficient commonality of interest" in regards to B and C. The court's findings will likely be an important point of reference in future suits seeking to reclassify gig workers as employees.
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What caused the communications lockdown Jammu and Kashmir was put on lockdown on August 5 after Prime Minister Narendra Modi's unprecedented decision to strip the state of its autonomy and reclassify it as a union territory.
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After the verdict, the family's attorney told reporters they were going to petition the sheriff's department to "reopen the case to declassify it as a suicide and reclassify it as an open investigation," ABC News reports.
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The effort to free up sales comes as a year-end government deadline approaches for Turkey's big banks to reclassify as NPLs 46 billion lira ($8 billion) worth of debt, and to set aside loss reserves.
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There is bipartisan legislation proposed in the House to reclassify marijuana as a Schedule 3 substance, defined as drugs with moderate to low potential for physical and psychological dependence, such as Tylenol with codeine and testosterone.
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The Grassley and Wyden bill would give the Department of Health and Human Services new authority to reclassify a drug and recoup rebates when a manufacturer deliberately misclassifies a drug in order to pay lower rebates.
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State Street and Bank of New York Mellon may in the future be able to reclassify some of their holdings to make them count toward their overall capital requirements, but they have not yet done so.
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In California, where Assembly Bill 5 promises to outright reclassify gig workers as employees, Uber launched a $110 million ballot initiative (with help from Lyft, DoorDash, Postmates, and Instacart) that seeks to enshrine this third category.
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"Contrary to some of the rhetoric we've heard, AB5 does not automatically reclassify any ride-share drivers from independent contractors to employees," Tony West, chief legal counsel at Uber, said in a press call with reporters.
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A surge in China's reported cases on Thursday reflected a decision by authorities to reclassify suspected cases as confirmed by using patients' chest scans, and did not indicate a wider epidemic, the World Health Organization said.
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The District of Columbia Court of Appeals says the FCC had authority to reclassify internet service providers as "information services" under Title I of the Telecommunications Act, rather than "common carriers" that can be more heavily regulated.
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Oando said it would reclassify some current liabilities as long-term liabilities to remedy its working capital by June and swap 27.5 billion naira of debt into equity, it said in a note to its 2018 accounts.
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In late 2015, Liberty Media announced it would reclassify its common shares into three tracking-stock groups, a move the company said would highlight each group's operations and make it more practical to raise money for them.
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Its legal status remains unclear — the Drug Enforcement Administration classifies CBD as illegal, although it doesn't go after anyone using or possessing it, and it hasn't said if it will reclassify CBD now that hemp is legal.
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President Barack Obama weighed in and advocated for the strongest option—having the FCC reclassify broadband internet as a utility, like water or electricity, which allows for more stringent regulation of the companies that provide internet access.
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People have taken psilocybin to treat everything from OCD to end-of-life despair, and doctors have called on the government to reclassify the drug so it can be studied further and potentially prescribed at some point.
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"The draft recovery plan includes specific recovery objectives and criteria that must be met in order for us to reclassify this species to threatened status and ultimately delist it under the Endangered Species Act," the agency wrote.
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To avoid changing the law to fix this loophole, some Republicans and the NRA have called for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives to reclassify bump-fire stocks in order to subject them strict regulations.
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Unless delivery apps receive an exemption, it would force them to reclassify their workers as employees instead of independent contractors—giving them basic labor protections like a minimum wage, health care, paid time off, and overtime pay.
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A surge in China's reported cases on Thursday reflected a decision by authorities to reclassify suspected cases as confirmed by using patients' chest scans, and did not necessarily indicate a wider epidemic, the World Health Organization said.
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But around the start of this decade, researchers began to reclassify the way we define primates, and started using the term "hominin" to describe the group of modern humans, extinct human species, and all our immediate ancestors.
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If employers use revenue for purposes, such as paying a dividend, instead of paying off their existing loan, the proposed changes would allow the IRS to reclassify the outstanding debt as equity, thereby increasing the employer's tax burden.
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That initiative, which was passed by voters in 2014, was designed to allow individuals to retroactively expunge or reclassify certain nonviolent felonies to misdemeanors, allowing individuals to become eligible again to work, vote, and receive some government benefits.
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The letter expressed support for principles of net neutrality, like treating all web traffic equally, but criticized the FCC's move to reclassify the broadband providers as telecommunications services, which opened them up to tougher, public utility-style regulation.
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Last month, Weatherford International plc said it would amend its financial statements to reclassify $31 million that was previously booked as revenue as interest payment and a reduction in accounts receivable because of PDVSA's lengthy delay in payment.
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Our story begins with the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) controversial decision to reclassify broadband Internet access as a Title II common carrier telecommunications service in its 2015 Open Internet Order With reclassification, two related legal effects were triggered.
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Millett grilled the agency on a range of issues, including why the FCC decided to reclassify the industry from telecommunications services — a tag that is applied to phone networks and carries public utility-style regulation — to information services.
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Local product R.J. Barrett is currently the No. 1 recruiting prospect for the college class of 2019 (2020 draft class) but could reclassify for 2018, which would put him in line to be a high pick in 2019.
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Uber and Lyft have been aggressively campaigning against a proposed law in California, AB 65, that would upend their business models if it compelled them and other gig economy companies to reclassify their independent contract workers as employees.
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Earlier today, California's state legislators voted to move forward on a bill that would force gig economy giants to reclassify their contractors as employees despite companies like Uber, Lyft, and DoorDash pledging $90 million to fight the measure.
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But I don't remember being touched by any such moral imperative when, in cap and gown at graduation ceremonies, I knew that just a few days later my local draft board would surely reclassify me as 1-A.
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A California law that took effect just this month is likely to reclassify many gig workers as employees, prompting companies like Uber to consider modifying their apps for California drivers to give them more control over their work.
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The settlement, which still needs to be approved by a judge, does not require Uber to reclassify its drivers, but does include a major financial payout and mandates that the companies make changes to the way it operates.
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California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who authored California bill AB 5 that would reclassify Uber drivers and many other kinds of contract workers as employees with greater legal employment protections, had choice words for Uber's loan plans on Twitter.
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In a letter sent to health care providers Friday, the FDA said it will convene an advisory meeting on the safety of the devices and signaled that it might reclassify surgical staplers to put them under tighter control.
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But sources indicate to Vox that other plans under discussion would allow the government to "reclassify" certain ports so that they no longer accept foot traffic — thus preventing them from being legally accessible for asylum seekers on foot.
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According to the SEC, Westlands had learned in 2010 that drought conditions would keep it from achieving that ratio, and decided to reclassify $9.8 million of reserves as revenue to meet the ratio, to avoid raising rates for customers.
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Some life insurers have taken the advantage of this favourable treatment by increasing their equity investment in single entities to the point where they have significant influence and can therefore reclassify their holdings as a long-term equity investment.
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As a result, the power to classify and/or reclassify controlled substances has, in practice, primarily been delegated to the DEA, with input from both the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and the Department of Health and Human Services.
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The just-passed California bill AB28503, promoted heavily by the Teamsters Union, demands that ride-sharing and other companies reclassify so-called "gig" workers, or contractors, as employees, thus upending the very model upon which the firms were built.
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The law requires most companies to reclassify contract, freelance and contingent workers — the backbone of the gig economy —as full-time employees eligible for benefits, a guaranteed $299–$13 state minimum wage and protections under the state's employment law.
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ISTANBUL, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Turkey's financial regulator BDDK instructed the country's banks on Tuesday to reclassify 46 billion lira ($8.1 billion) worth of loans as non-performing by year end, and to set aside reserves to cover the losses.
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Two senior bankers said that big lenders may not completely abide Ankara's most aggressive move so far: a directive two weeks ago for banks to reclassify as non-performing loans (NPLs) some 46 billion lira ($8.2 billion) in debt.
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Japan's $1.5 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) recently decided to reclassify FX-hedged foreign debt as domestic, giving itself leeway to buy more foreign debt — including "scope to increase buying of FX-unhedged foreign bonds", Barclays analysts wrote.
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Many of those factors prompted Skelley and the Center for Politics to reclassify the state last week in Trump's favor from "likely Democrat" to "leans Democrat," less than three months after the organization moved the state in Clinton's favor.
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Uber, one of the main targets of the legislation, had previously declared that it did not plan to reclassify its drivers as employees and that it thought its drivers could retain their independent status even under the new law.
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As for protecting workers from exploitation, Gonzalez also introduced bill AB 5, which went into effect this year and promises to reclassify gig workers (including delivery drivers) as employees owed a minimum wage, benefits, and dignity that these platforms deny them.
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If that doesn't happen, though, the PFA could ask the National Labor Relations Board to reclassify the UFC as an employer, which the board would do if it determined that the league sufficiently controls the terms of employment for fighters.
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MUMBAI, Jan 28 (Reuters) - ICICI Bank Ltd, India's biggest private sector lender by assets, reported a surge in bad loans for the December quarter partly due to a central bank direction to reclassify some troubled loan accounts as bad loans.
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It's going to be very difficult for opponents of reversing Title II to make sound legal arguments against the reset, since they spent years making the case that the FCC had precisely the authority to reclassify broadband as it saw fit.
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MUMBAI (Reuters) - Axis Bank Ltd, India's third-biggest private sector lender by assets, reported a surge in bad loans in the December quarter, as the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) asked lenders to reclassify some troubled loan accounts as bad loans.
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He also found that unique commenters had a more nuanced understanding of net neutrality law than lawmakers may have assumed, including regularly mentioning the decision to reclassify broadband as a common carrier under Title II of the Communications Act of 1996.
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The federal government issued a rule this year requiring all companies with drugs that have been approved under what the Food and Drug Administration calls a new drug application to either reclassify them as brand-name drugs or seek a waiver.
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Index provider MSCI said on Wednesday it will reclassify Argentina as an emerging market and start including Saudi Arabia in that classification, sharply broadening the investor base for both countries in a move that could be supportive of their local equities.
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Then India reclassified the state to give New Delhi more control On Tuesday, India's parliament voted to reorganize and reclassify Jammu and Kashmir in order to give the central government in New Delhi greater authority over the disputed Muslim-majority region.
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New Delhi (CNN)India's parliament has voted to reorganize and reclassify the state of Jammu and Kashmir, a far-reaching and highly contentious move that will give the government in New Delhi greater authority over the disputed Muslim-majority region.
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In San Diego, a judge issued an injunction suggesting Instacart may have to reclassify its workers as employees and in San Francisco, lawmakers are calling for the emergency enforcement of AB5 to finally end the illegal misclassification of gig workers.
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On January 1, a law went into effect in California known as AB5 that is intended to reclassify many of the state's independent contractors as regular employees and give them the workplace benefits they deserve, such as unemployment and disability insurance.
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This month, the CMRA said it expected China to reclassify high-grade copper and aluminium scrap as raw material, rather than waste, by the second quarter of next year, but it remains unclear what the threshold for metal content would be.
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Advocates want to do away with cash bail; guarantee speedy trials; reclassify which parole violations send people back to jail; and force prosecutors to give defense lawyers possibly exculpatory evidence — which they can withhold until virtually the last minute — earlier.
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" For the past two years, Gómez and his luchadores have been working with a Seattle wrestling promoter named Jake Stratton and his crew of wrestlers to lobby the Washington State Legislature to reclassify lucha libre and pro wrestling as "theatrical wrestling.
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Psychedelics like this aren't legal for medical use, though researchers at John Hopkins hope that one day the Food and Drug Administration will reclassify them, as their analysis found it can help treat depression, anxiety, and arthritis, the New York Times reported.
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The inquiry was conducted by the majority on the Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs, and concludes that the FCC would not have chosen to reclassify broadband under Title II of the Telecommunications Act if the president had not supported it.
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But the Tax Policy Centre (TPC), a think-tank that has analysed Mr Trump's proposals, points out that although his plan does indeed reclassify carried interest, it would still cause the effective tax rate on it to fall from 23.8% to 15%.
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In the letter to Mnuchin and Mulvaney, Democrats argued a 15% tax rate on business income would "undermine Social Security and Medicare directly" because taxpayers who could reclassify their personal income as business income would do so, thereby paying less FICA taxes.
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This year, the federal government issued a rule that requires all companies with drugs that have been approved under what the Food and Drug Administration calls a new drug application to either reclassify them as brand-name drugs or seek a waiver.
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Kalanick praised the fact that the company would not have to reclassify its drivers, but he said many of the changes mandated by the proposed settlement would help the company — which has expanded quickly around the world — treat its workforce more professionally.
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The suggestion to reclassify psilocybin from a Schedule I drug, with no known medical benefit, to a Schedule IV drug, which is akin to prescription sleeping pills, was part of a review to assess the safety and abuse of medically administered psilocybin.
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Uber's share price hit a new low ahead of the expected passage of a bill in California that would reclassify the employment status of the company's drivers in the state from contractor to employee, a threat to its low-labour-cost business model.
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The rich have a strong incentive to reclassify labor income as capital income — the way that hedge fund and private equity managers do already using the carried interest loophole — which suggests we should tax capital income to prevent this kind of avoidance.
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The group asked Congress to remove the drug from the list of Schedule 1 narcotics — a class that includes heroin, LSD and other drugs that have "no accepted medical use" and a high potential for abuse — and reclassify it in a lower schedule.
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"At the very least, Bloomberg could promise that if elected president his Justice Department would reclassify marijuana off of its current designation as a Schedule 1 controlled substance, drugs deemed to have "no currently accepted medical use and a high potential for abuse.
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Experts predict that the law could cost Uber an additional $25 million in annual operating costs alone if it ends up compelling the company to reclassify its workers as employees, who would be eligible for minimum wage, health care, and overtime protection.
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Big Telecom's first move was to take the FCC to court to challenge the new rules, which resulted in a 2016 ruling from the D.C. Court of Appeals that upheld net neutrality rules and said the FCC was well within its right to reclassify ISPs.
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One controversial decision made by the FCC under Wheeler was the 2015 order to reclassify broadband internet service under a section of communications law that treats them more like public utilities and subjects them to stricter rules as part of the FCC's "net neutrality" rules.
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FCC, where the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld Wheeler's controversial decision to reclassify broadband internet access as a Title II common carrier service, Wheeler is apparently betting that he has a hot hand on matters of agency deference.
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Instead, it makes it possible for high-end PSAPs to voluntarily reclassify as hearing aids if they decide to market themselves as a solution for hearing impairment — something they would do now if it didn't mean forgoing the ability to sell directly to consumers.
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Worse, the U.S. Treasury Department has proposed far-reaching new regulations under Section 385 of the Internal Revenue Code that would reclassify inter-company debt as equity, tax such transactions under the U.S. corporate tax rate and thereby penalize U.S. companies for daily business transactions.
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A 1971 state law says a single test must be used for admissions at Stuyvesant, Bronx Science and Brooklyn Technical High School, but many legal experts have said the city could reclassify the other five schools, allowing them to change how students are admitted.
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Hershey responded enthusiastically to the president's order to act on draft resistance by instructing draft boards to reclassify and call for induction anyone who turned in their draft cards — actions that the Supreme Court later ruled (in the case of James Oestereich, among others) unconstitutional.
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First introduced into the state Assembly in January (and passing some months later, 53 to 11), AB5 would likely force gig companies to reclassify their workers as employees rather than independent contractors—something those companies have fought, and continue to fight, vigorously to resist.
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The office of Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healey on Friday urged a federal judge to order Uber Technologies Inc and Lyft Inc to immediately reclassify their drivers as employees and provide them with paid sick leave, saying it could help stem the spread of coronavirus.
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The announcement comes just a few months after a group of lawmakers called on Google to reclassify its temp workers as full-time employees, accusing the company of inappropriately using the distinction to avoid paying wages and benefits typically enjoyed by full-time Googlers.
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The controversial statute, which went into effect on January 1, was written to reclassify hundreds of thousands of gig workers in California as employees, making them eligible for basic labor rights and protections that tech platforms have conveniently circumvented for years, saving millions of dollars.
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Stop-start talks among lenders, companies and the Finance Ministry over the last year resulted in the BDDK regulator in September telling banks to provision for losses and reclassify as NPLs 46 billion lira ($7.5 billion) of loans by the end of the year.
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If forced to reclassify their fleets of drivers and delivery workers as employees, it could massively ratchet up the costs these companies incur at a time when private and public companies in this market are facing pressure from investors to prove they can be profitable.
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Depending on your Windows 7 Automatic Update settings, however, it is possible that your computer will download and try to install the Windows 10 software at some point, because of the way Microsoft has said it plans to reclassify the software through the computer's Windows Update tool.
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According to Green and Zimmer, the federal government should provide grants to cities to reclassify specific streets and highways as "smart lanes," in which people with three or more occupants in their vehicle could drive for free, while everyone else would have to pay a toll.
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"It's much harder than it should be to do research on medical marijuana and the cannabinoids it contains," said Casarett, who believes the single most important thing the government could do to improve medical marijuana research would be to reclassify marijuana as Schedule II or III.
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Over time, two more things could happen: (1) just like more and more forms of gaming keep getting authorized, so could more and more types of drugs; and (2) the normalization of recreational drugs in states will force the federal government to reclassify drug penalties and prohibitions.
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"It is undisputed that the reintroduction of the red wolf into the Red Wolf Recovery Area is not without its challenges, but absent a change in Congress' mandate or a decision to delist or reclassify the red wolf" officials are obligated to sufficiently protect it, Boyle said.
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Oklahoma voters will also cast ballots on measures that would allow wine and full-strength beer to be sold in grocery stores, increase the state sales tax by 1 percentage point to fund teacher pay raises and reclassify some minor criminal offenses including drug possession as misdemeanors.
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On Wednesday, Uber's chief legal officer, Tony West — surprising the many, many people who have hailed a ride with Uber's service — said that the company did not expect to have to reclassify its drivers as full-time employees because they are not core to its business.
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Until recently, the governor was still in talks with many of these companies, as they angled for some form of side-deal that might exempt them from needing to reclassify their workers—something these businesses have not been shy about stating will hurt their business model.
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Her allegations include that Athena had had enough information to reclassify Christian's mutation before he was tested, and that if they had done so, it would have changed his diagnosis and treatment such that his death from a seizure related to Dravet syndrome could have been avoided.
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Then, the Obama FCC's 2015 decision to reclassify ISPs as common carriers put ISPs back under FCC oversight — the decision that also enabled the FCC to adopt the strongest-ever net neutrality rules as well as protect consumers from fraudulent billing, price gouging, and other harmful ISP practices.
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It is the latest piece of good news for Kuwait, one of the standout performers in Gulf markets this year, and comes ahead of MSCI's decision next year on whether to reclassify its Kuwait index from the current frontier-market status to its widely used emerging-market benchmark.
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" But he added, "We all suffer from such low expectations of groups and our representatives that we're grateful for them just doing anything.... If there's any American out there who believes that merely having the ATF reclassify this one device will keep America safe from gun violence, they're wrong.
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Absent clarification from the campaign, the center assumed that choice would be available and concluded the change could lead to significant tax avoidance — of income taxes and payroll taxes that finance Social Security and Medicare — as high-wage employees reclassify themselves as pass-through businesses for tax advantage.
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The American Medical Association and the American Academy of Pediatrics have both called on the DEA to reclassify the drug, and there's also growing movement among activists to "deschedule" marijuana by removing it from the list of controlled substances entirely, meaning it would be treated like alcohol or tobacco.
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If Uber does not suspend its service or step up to support drivers during this pandemic, the bare minimum we can do is help drivers reclassify as employees, extract their pound of flesh, unionize their workforces, and stop this from gross disregard for human life from ever happening again.
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Earlier this month, Vox announced that hundreds of freelance writers, primarily those covering sports for SB Nation, will lose their jobs in the coming months as the company prepares for a California law to go into effect that will force companies to reclassify contractors in the state as employees.
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The rise in China's reported cases on Thursday reflected a decision by authorities there to reclassify a backlog of suspected cases by using patients' chest images, and is not necessarily the "tip of an iceberg" of a wider epidemic, a top World Health Organization official said on Thursday.
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This is a preview of what is to come in California, where Uber and Lyft have teamed up with DoorDash to spend $90 million on a ballot initiative designed to effectively overturn AB 5, a recently-passed bill that requires ride-hailing companies to reclassify their drivers as employees.
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Hundreds of freelance writers at Vox Media, primarily those covering sports for the SB Nation site, will lose their jobs in the coming months as the company prepares for a California law to go into effect that will force companies to reclassify contractors in the state as employees.
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FCC chair Ajit Pai voted on Thursday to roll back Obama-era regulatory moves, reclassify broadband internet as a Title I information service, thus also ending network neutrality regulations that force wireline ISPs (cellular internet is already allowed to operate in non-neutral ways) to treat all data equally.
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During the G20 summit in Buenos Aires last week, Chinese President Xi Jinping agreed to reclassify fentanyl as a "controlled substance," which means individuals in China who sell fentanyl to the US "will be subject to China's maximum penalty under the law," according to a statement from the White House.
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The CMRA said earlier this month that it expected the Chinese government to reclassify high-grade copper and aluminium scrap from a waste to a raw material by the second quarter of next year, although it remains unclear what percentage of metal content will allow it to qualify as raw material.
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Dr. Matthew Johnson, an associate professor of psychiatry and behavioral sciences at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, was one of the authors of a study last year recommending that the Food and Drug Administration reclassify the drug to acknowledge its potential medical uses and relatively low potential for abuse.
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Most critics have given up on efforts to pressure Uber to reclassify them as full-time employees, acknowledging there will likely need to be some new status created that encompasses the flexibility of driving for Uber that attracts some drivers, but also provides more job security and benefits than what currently exists.
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Republican Ajit Pai's FCC voted 3-2 along party lines today to repeal virtually every open internet and net neutrality rule on the books, reclassify broadband service in a way that prevents further rules from being implemented, and hands consumer protection to another government agency that's never dealt with these issues before.
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"I'm concerned about what appears to be a pattern of activity of these gig companies to not even find out what they should be doing by law," said California Assemblywoman Lorena Gonzalez, who authored the landmark labor legislation AB 5 that legally pressures companies like Uber and Lyft to reclassify contractors as employees.
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A prominent gig worker rights labor lawyer, Shannon Liss-Riordan, who has been battling Uber around employee misclassification since 2013, has already filed a class action lawsuit against Uber for misclassifying drivers as workers instead of employees, including a request for an injunction that would force Uber to reclassify its workforce right away.
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It appears to be a kind of message board where Insiders are asked about recent Twitter decisions, including last month's decision to reclassify the app in the App Store as a News App inside of a Social Networking App, and Twitter's decision to no longer count photos and links against a tweet's 140 characters.
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That means for Pai to overturn net neutrality through FCC rulemaking, and for that rule to stand up in court after an inevitable challenge by proponents, he'll need a good argument for why the FCC was wrong in 2015 to reclassify broadband, or to show that market conditions have changed enough to warrant reclassification.
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Indeed, minutes from a 2018 JSF Program Office meeting obtained by POGO show that officials have simply been making paperwork changes to reclassify several Category I deficiencies — which may cause death or major damage to a weapon system while restricting combat readiness per the Pentagon — to a lower status rather than actually fixing said issues.
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For the FCC itself, the new rules give further justification for a closely related proceeding, which would "reclassify" many over-the-top services as traditional pay TV companies, subject to a crazy quilt of FCC and local rules limiting licensing, rebroadcast, localization and other anti-competitive features that have hamstrung regulated providers for decades.
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For a long time, the FCC tried to make net neutrality and other open internet rules happen with that limited authority it exerted over them under Title I. And it took these approaches, which were rejected again and again, in order to avoid having to rock the boat and reclassify broadband providers as Title II telecommunications services.
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In Oklahoma, a state with the country's second highest incarceration rate and the highest incarceration rate among women, voters approved two ballot measures by a healthy margin: one that would reclassify certain felonies as misdemeanors, thereby reducing the prison population; and a second that would reinvest those cost savings into addiction and mental health treatment programming.
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"The costs of having to treat people as workers probably add on something between 15 and 20 per cent of what they're paying the drivers at the moment," said Sean Nesbitt, a litigator on employment issues at law firm Taylor Wessing, discussing the implications for Uber's business if it had to reclassify all drivers as workers.
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Coke in 2016 bought a majority stake in CCBA, the continent's largest soft drink bottler, with operations in a dozen markets including South Africa, Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania, from Anheuser-Busch InBev SA. The company said it would reclassify its financial statements from second quarter in 2019 to include CCBA as part of its continuing operations.
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But his plan to reclassify weed as a Schedule II drug has cannabis businesses freaking out, as that move would put it under control of the Food and Drug Administration, which might strictly regulate it as a medication, raising the possibility that the recreational cannabis market as it exists in many states might be wiped out.
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Unreserved impaired loans accounted for over 0003% of Fitch Core Capital (FCC) at end-3Q17, which is already extremely high, and capital has come under further pressure as the bank has announced its intention to reclassify around EUR800 million of unlikely-to-pay loans as doubtful (sofferenze), which will require higher coverage levels in order to be disposed of.
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The coalition's filing refers to the FCC's order as "arbitrary" and "capricious" and challenges the agency's ability to reclassify broadband without review under Administrative Procedures Act; it contends the order violations federal law, "including, but not limited to," the US Constitution and the Communications Act of 1934; and further alleges that the order was promulgated in violation of agency rulemaking requirements.
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Sen. Tom CarperThomas (Tom) Richard CarperAmerica is in desperate need of infrastructure investment: Senate highway bill a step in the right direction FARA should apply to Confucius Institutes The 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal MORE (D-Del), the ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security Committee, is pushing the Department of Homeland Security to reclassify elections as critical infrastructure.
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His proposal will do three things: first, it'll reclassify internet providers as Title I information services; second, it'll prevent the FCC from adapting any net neutrality rules to practices that internet providers haven't thought up yet; and third, it'll open questions about what to do with several key net neutrality rules — like no blocking or throttling of apps and websites — that were implemented in 2015.
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The Sierra Club says in its lawsuit that the SEC, after initially communicating with the environmental group that the request was in the public interest and granting the Sierra Club a filing fee waiver, later said it had to reclassify the FOIA request under a more complex treatment given the number of documents to review and that meant it could not even begin to process the request for three years.
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Gig Workers Win in CaliforniaAfter the better part of year, California's Senate today passed AB5, legislation that is expected…Read more ReadAssembly Bill 5 (AB5), which is expected to easily pass through the California Assembly and Governor Gavin Newsom's desk to become law, aims to force companies to reclassify independent contractors who meet a certain set of criteria as full employees, a classification which carries crucial benefits denied contractors.
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Bipartisan legislation pending in Congress called the CARERS Act, co-sponsored by Senators Cory Booker (D-NJ), Rand Paul (R-KY), and Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), would also reclassify marijuana from a Schedule I controlled substance to Schedule II and allow greater access to medical marijuana — a change that would begin to bridge the gap between federal and state law as the federal government acknowledges certain medicinal uses.
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Mark PocanMark William PocanTrump crosses new line with Omar, Tlaib, Israel move Liberal Democrat eyes aid cuts to Israel after Omar, Tlaib denied entry Democrats give cold shoulder to Warren wealth tax MORE (Wis.), Keith Ellison (Minn.) and Hank Johnson (Ga.) introduced the Securing America's Future Elections (SAFE) Act, which would launch several cybersecurity programs, including codifying the decision from former Homeland Security Secretary Jeh Johnson to reclassify elections as critical infrastructure.
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With the FCC's controversial decision to reclassify broadband internet access as a Title II common carrier "telecommunications" service in its 2015 Open Internet order (currently on appeal, with a decision expected any moment), all broadband service providers (BSPs) — whether wireline, cable or wireless — are now subject to the Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) statutory framework contained in Section 222 of the Communications Act — rules which were designed for pre-internet services offered by the handful of telephone companies in existence at the time.
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