After Uber Technologies Inc. (NYSE: UBER) and LYFT Inc (NASDAQ: LYFT) executives failed to appear at a hearing on Capitol Hill at which they were to be chastised for lax safety oversight, lawmakers turned their attention to the merits of making it more difficult for employers to hire independent contractors. The hearing, held by the Highways and […]

A retired home-repair contractor testified that Manafort paid him almost $3.3 million from 2010 to 2014 for renovations he did on his New York houses. “Paul’s a tough negotiator,’’ Jacobson said. Jacobson said his bank closed his account after many years, prompting him to ask Manafort if the closure had anything to do with the […]

Chinese government hackers breached the files of a U.S. Navy contractor to

Setting a fine example to the children learning inside, council-hired staff painted ‘SOHOOL’ in front of the entrance to Woodslee Primary in Bromborough, Wirral.

The Wolverhampton-based company had been employed by the government to work on 450 projects including the building and maintenance of hospitals, prisons and defence sites.

With urgent talks with the government due on Sunday, the struggling building and services company – now in talks with its creditors – warns it will collapse unless it gets Whitehall’s help.

A 65-year-old woman, who works as a contractor for the government, has been arrested in north London today by counter terror police (pictured, stock image). More to follow

The man was fixing a lock inside the ATM room at the Bank of America in Mesquite Street, Corpus Christi in Texas on Wednesday, when he accidentally locked himself in.

WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal contractor has been arrested following the leak of a classified intelligence report that suggests Russian hackers attacked at least one U.S. voting software supplier days before last year's presidential election.

Reality Leigh Winner, a 25-year-old National Security Agency contractor, reportedly confessed to…