pmyteh

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by pmyteh 10y ago
I'm not a lawyer; my exposure to employment law came in a previous existence as a workplace union rep and this is somewhat outside my expertise. As I understand it, if the Uber driver were allowed to have someone else drive their car f
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by pmyteh 10y ago
No; there's plenty of scope in English law for genuine self-employment. Genuinely self-employed people using a marketplace to find work are not employees of the marketplace. But if you (in reality) look like an employee of an intermedi
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by pmyteh 10y ago
There aren't medallions in the UK; the supply of taxi/private hire drivers is slightly restricted by licensing requirements (which are pretty loose for private hire drivers in particular) but otherwise it's already an open ma
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by pmyteh 10y ago
English law recognises that there is a continuum between obviously employed and obviously self-employed, but the categorisation in any particular case will be down to the reality of the actual relationship between the employer/contract
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by pmyteh 10y ago
The same attitude is common in England, where buses are often infrequent, inconvenient, uncomfortable, and used mainly by the poor. Interestingly, it's not true of London, where just about anyone will get the bus, especially for journe
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by pmyteh 10y ago
Because it's a sexual activity, illegal if done with pictures of under 18s (but not generally considered in the public interest to prosecute by the CPS if the pics are of the perpetrators themselves and it was consensual - so no "
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by pmyteh 10y ago
That's right. The Crown Prosecution Service (the national body which prosecutes essentially all criminal cases on behalf of the state) takes the view that charging under-18s for genuinely consensual sexual activity is generally not in
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They are indeed returned after the ceremony. I suppose it helps keep the tradition without the tedium of trying to source another six oversized horseshoes every year. And the building of a pointless stock of blunt agricultural tools somewhe
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Two people collected the data, two did the analysis and wrote the paper, three helped a bit, one got the grant which funded the lab. Or something similar. The incentives for giving credit to everyone who participated even a bit are quite st