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Battle Over Rideshare Worker Classification Continues: New York Supreme Court Holds Uber Drivers Are Employees, Entitled to Unemployment Insurance Friday, January 8, 2021
In yet another decision concerning gig economy businesses, the New York Supreme Court, Appellate Division, Third Judicial Department upheld a decision of the Unemployment Insurance Appeal Board (the “Board”), which held that Uber exercised sufficient control over its drivers to qualify as their employer. Accordingly, it found Uber to be liable for unemployment insurance contributions with respect to the drivers at issue.
Brief Procedural Background
Claimant and similarly situated drivers (“Claimants”) sought unemployment insurance benefits when they ceased driving for Uber. The New York Department of Labor (“DOL”) issued initial determinations, finding that the Claimants were employees of Uber and that Uber was liable for additional unemployment insurance contributions
In this episode of Interview, we re joined by Lisa Scott-Lee, one of the members of the British pop group Steps and one of the founding partners at Dubai Performing Arts.
Jane Witherspoon:
You ve just got back together with Steps. You re hot off the heels of a whistle-stop tour. How s it going?
Lisa Scott-Lee:
We just released our new album, ‘What the Future Holds’, which was only last week. And I m very proud to say it went into the iTunes charts at number one.
Number two in the UK charts, and it was number three in Australia and number five in Indonesia and just all over the world we had lots of success with it, so I yes, it s you caught me at a time where I m feeling very blessed and grateful.
• Dec 14, 2020
The archival and reissue market continues to flourish and 2020 offered a number of riches in that department, including retrospective sets from Minneapolis’ Prince and The Replacements as both issued archival sets looking back at albums from 1987. Prince’s
Sign O’ The Times not only demonstrated that the original album has held up remarkably well but that the Purple One had plenty of strong material floating around at the time of the record’s release. Moreover, we get to hear what a remarkable live performer he was on this new set.
The Replacements’ sole effort as a trio,
Please To Meet Me, is back in expanded form as well with plenty of demos, including the band’s final recordings with original guitarist Bob Stinson from the summer of 1986. Stinson’s replacement in the band, Slim Dunlap, issued a live show from 2002, captured live at the Turf Club in St. Paul, where he frequently played in his post-Replacements days. It’s a firm re
Tina Barrett has said that her former S Club 7 bandmates are all keen to reunite and make new music together 17 years after they split.
S Club 7 rose to fame in 1999 with hits including Don’t Stop Movin’, Reach For The Stars and Never Had A Dream Come True however they split in 2003.
The singer, 44, has now revealed she s spoken to the former band - Jon Lee, Rachel Stevens, Jo O Meara, Hannah Spearitt, Bradley McIntosh and Paul Cattermole- and has said: We definitely want to do something new together.
Reunion? S Club 7 s Tina Barrett has said that the former band are all keen to make new music together, 17 years after they split (pictured in 2011)
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