DEN HAAG (ANP) - De inflatie in Nederland is in september gestegen naar 3,4 procent. Dat meldt het Centraal Bureau voor de Statistiek (CBS) in een snelle raming. De stijging komt vooral door de hoge brandstofprijzen. In augustus was de inflatie nog 3,3 procent in vergelijking met een jaar eerder.


But then in 2020, they spent $200 million to make that fraud legal, so now they won't have to pay that again in the future!
According to methane-breathing money-ghouls who run our world, this was a great investment: they could have just spent an additional $50M/year on salaries, but now they legalized an across-the-board salary reduction that pays itself back in only 4 years. Half that, actually, because they went halfsies on it with Uber! Someone's getting a raise.
This goes way beyond "a fine is a price".
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San Francisco City Attorney David Chiu said it was "the largest wage-and-hour settlement in California history." [...]
That's a time before voters approved Proposition 22, an Uber- and Lyft-funded ballot measure that classified ride-hail drivers as independent contractors, meaning they would not receive the benefits and wage protections afforded to other workers. The gig companies spent more than $200 million on the measure.
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