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Contractor Found Dead Before TV News Investigation About Him Was To Air
(Charles & Hudson)On Monday night, a St. Louis TV station was planning to air a “5 On Your Side” investigation into a local contractor. Instead, they announced on the air that the subject of their...
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Homeowners Out $15,500 When Sketchy Bomb Shelter Seller Fails To Deliver
(dsuniaga)A company may have ads on TV and a website with lots of nice pictures, but that doesn’t mean it’s not a scam. Just ask the homeowners who have paid $15,500 to a bomb shelter company but have...
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Former Freelancer Sues Google For Overtime, Pay Violations
(Joshua Leners)It’s not uncommon for employees and contractors to bring lawsuits against their employers for unpaid wages. One such suit was filed earlier this week by a former freelance worker...
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Uber, Lyft Trying To Convince Courts That Drivers Are Not Employees
(frankieleon)What’s the difference between a contractor working for you and an employee? Often, an employee will receive benefits like health insurance and workers compensation if something goes awry,...
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Contractor Sues Spike TV’s “Catch A Contractor” For False Imprisonment,...
The three co-hosts of the Spike TV show, Adam Carolla, Alison Bedell, and Skip Bedell.Spike TV show “Catch a Contractor” uses the infamous model of NBC’s “To Catch a Predator,” but instead of snaring...
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Judge: Ranting Yelp Reviewer Must Pay Contractor $1,000
It’s one thing to go online and rant about a business that you’ve dealt with, exercising your right to free speech and warning other consumers away from dealing with that company. The problem, one...
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Contractor Accepts $7,500 In Payments, Disappears
When you hire a contractor and they do a competent job, you should be able to just hire that contractor again without checking their background and starting the process over. Right? Not so fast, as one...
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House Fire Survivor Waits Over A Year For IKEA Contractor To Finish His Kitchen
When a big retailer like IKEA refers you to a specific contractor, that means they’re pre-screened and you shouldn’t have any problems, right? Not necessarily. In California, a man who just wants to...
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Contractors Charged With Using Money From Hurricane Sandy Victims To Shop And...
Here’s a nightmare scenario: your house is severely damaged in a rare storm, and you hire a legitimate-seeming contractor to repair it or to raise your house on stilts to prevent flooding the next time...
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Instacart To Pay $4.6M, Revise Service Amount Description To Resolve Class...
Back in 2015, and again last year, Instacart shoppers took their growing ire over worker classification, as well as tip and service amount changes, a step farther by suing the grocery delivery startup...
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