EF Benson's Lucia and Mapp series and the related Tom Holt tributes. I reread them all at least once a year and they never fail to comfort and cheer.

Also Georgette Heyer's Regency Romances, Cotillion is probably the one I return to most

In the Inequality.org op-ed, researchers Mishal Khan and Kung Feng lift up four core themes that emerged from their analysis of recent AI principles and statements released by unions and other worker organizations. laborcenter.berkeley.edu/a-first-look...

For more on this see the early access NZJER article "Beyond the binary: time for a broader approach to employment status"https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/nzjer/forthcoming/view/index Lynne Coker, Annick Masselot, and Bernard Walker published on this earlier this year.

I note the Minister says you can either be a contractor or an employee but you can't be both. That's why a lot of the rest of the civilised world is moving beyond that binary and looking at more specific and targeted ways to address the exploitation in platform work.

Read more about the project at our website: www.dair-institute.org/projects/dri...

This seems like it must be a breach of good faith under the ERA (s32) and they should be subject to a penalty.

What?! That is amazing. Congratulations!