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4th DCA Upholds Denial of Class Certification to Delivery Drivers
11/10/2015
BeavEx as drivers. They also hold licenses as owners and operators of their own courier businesses.
Procedural History Solano and Teruel sued BeavEx in July 2011 alleging BeavEx had misclassified them as independent contractors when they were in fact employees.
They sought certification of a
Category: News
Amazon Delivery Drivers File Misclassification Complaint
10/29/2015
Four drivers are suing Amazon.com and a courier company it contracted with for a nascent same-day delivery service alleging they were illegally misclassified as independent contractors.
Plaintiffs Taree Truong Kahled Alkojak Olga Georgieva and Cynthia Miller were hired by courier Scoobeez to
Category: News
Judge Gives Preliminary Approval to $227M FedEx Settlement
10/19/2015
delivery service companies.
But in recent years FedEx has been hit with repeated lawsuits accusing it of misclassifying its workforce and many have been unfavorable in their outcomes.
Last August the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals put out two decisions finding FedEx Ground had misclassified
Category: News
Dozens of Workers' Exploitation Investigations Launched in New York
10/16/2015
supermarkets housecleaning companies landscapers and car washes. The task force includes officials from departments with jurisdiction over these industries and others the governor's office said in a statement.
A key area the task force is looking at is workers being misclassified as independent
Category: News
Labor Commissioner Decides Uber Drivers are Employees
10/15/2015
Division of Workers' Compensation that it had misclassified its drivers as independent contractors.
In Oregon Avakian said he applied an "economic realities test" to determine whether Uber drivers are employees. He determined that Uber exercises a significant degree of control over its drivers' work by
Category: News
Reuters Journalists Launch Class Action for Misclassification
10/14/2015
overtime vacation health benefits and meal breaks for 10 years according to a report in the news agency courthousenews.com.
The suit claims Thompson Reuters and Reuters America "willfully misclassified plaintiff and other journalists as independent contractors in order to maximize profits at the
Category: News
Flooring Contractor Cited for Labor Law Violations
10/14/2015
The Rhode Island labor department has ordered a second contractor to pay penalties and back wages to workers whom state regulators say were misclassified as independent contractors.
State Department of Labor and Training Director Scott Jensen said the department on Sept. 24 ordered Mancieri
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DoorDash and GrubHub Accused of Misclassification
09/29/2015
A Boston attorney who has sued Uber and Lyft alleging the companies misclassified drivers as independent contractors is now taking on food-delivery services DoorDash and GrubHub according to a report by Wired.
Shannon Liss-Riordan has filed class-action lawsuits against GrubHub and DoorDash in
Category: News
Trucking Co. Owes Carrier Unpaid Premiums
09/29/2015
A federal appellate court ruled that a Michigan-based trucking company owed Liberty Mutual Insurance Co 101592 in unpaid workers' compensation insurance premiums for drivers it had misclassified as independent contractors.
Case Max Trucking v. Liberty Mutual Insurance Corp. No. 14-2115 09
Category: News
Uber Appeals Class Certification for Drivers
09/17/2015
Transportation network company Uber Technologies Inc. is asking the U.S. 9th Circuit Court of Appeals to overturn the decision of a district court judge to certify as a class a group of drivers who allege the company misclassified them as independent contractors.
Uber claims in its appeal filed
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