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...huge beneficiary of increasing returns from international trade, having created a tech and logistics layer for getting cheap manufactured goods reliably from Asian factories to a huge end market in the West...
...“Divesting is an awful idea,” he recently told me at the Aspen Ideas Festival....
...So long as the contractor provides these verifications, “the statute does not prohibit a state agency from contracting” with one of the 10 financial groups, the state added....
...US defence contractors Lockheed Martin and Raytheon also report earnings as demand for their products surges. 3M, Johnson & Johnson and General Electric also report....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on August 9 2022. ©2022 Nikkei Inc....
...In becoming the coolest app for younger users, TikTok has left the West Coast’s finest and fastest in the dust....
...Bereaved families and survivors mark the fifth anniversary of the fire at Grenfell Tower in west London on Tuesday with the public inquiry on the tragedy still exposing the wider circumstances that fuelled...
...But the vast majority of these workers are classified as independent contractors, not employees, so they must cover their own expenses, including fuel....
...Shelly Steward, director of The Aspen Institute’s Future of Work Initiative, said that permanent programmes were needed to support gig and low-wage workers....
...“Too often, workers lose important wage and related protections when employers misclassify them as independent contractors,” he added....
...It is still exempt despite a California judge ruling that the law classifying gig workers as independent contractors was unconstitutional....
...Under Khosrowshahi’s direction, West pushed for a settlement and in February 2018 got one....
...We zigzag through aspens to the base of a little cliff below the peak. I rip off my skins and ski snow of — let’s be kind — variable quality....
...A version of this article was first published by Nikkei Asia on June 9, 2021. ©2021 Nikkei Inc....
...Babcock International has hired former Cobham head David Lockwood as chief executive to drive change at the UK defence contractor. More here....
...Nonetheless, Mr West maintained that the “vast majority” of drivers prefer to work as contractors because it affords them more flexibility....
...This time the impact is broader and, in a worst-case scenario, could result in a slimmed down version of Dubai Inc....
...Much of the legal clean-up has fallen to Tony West, the general counsel Mr Khosrowshahi hired from PepsiCo in late 2017....
...A minor exception would be if the fire were found to have been caused by contractors working on the site....
...(FT) Apple apologises for Siri snooping Apple has apologised to users after acknowledging that it hired contractors to listen to customers’ audio recordings through its voice assistant Siri....
...On Monday WCS was just $17.78 a barrel, compared to $58.91 for US West Texas Intermediate....
...Construction employment has fallen 30 per cent in the past decade, according to Ken Simonson, chief economist for Associated General Contractors of America....
...By the close in New York, Aspen was up 10.2 per cent, Axis 6.3 per cent and RenaissanceRe 4.4 per cent....
...The metro line linking the airport and the city — built by a separate contractor — will not be ready until next year, making it difficult to reach a site far to the north-west of Istanbul’s touristic centre...
...However, the emergence of ESG as an investor issue has not enthused all of Russia Inc....
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