Results tagged “independentcontractors”

• A year after their well-publicized confrontation, Harvard professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr. and Cambridge police Sgt. James Crowley were both blamed for the incident. An independent Cambridge review committee determined the incident was “avoidable” and each man had “opportunities" to avoid what took place. [WCVB]

• Beth Singer, the Provincetown School Superintendent, issued a public apology for the school's new condom policy. She pledged to revise the policy. [Cape Cod Times]

A welcome change might be coming to the way that strippers in Massachusetts get paid. Following an August decision that strippers at King Arthur's Lounge in Chelsea were improperly classified as independent contractors, a new lawsuit has made the same claim for a group of strippers in Salisbury. Depending on how this lawsuit shakes out, it could mean that strippers across the state will begin being classified as regular employees, with more robust rights. more ›