Author: Richard Reibstein Esq.

Last month, the federal district court judge assigned to handle dozens of state law class action claims brought around the country against FedEx Ground by its drivers, who have claimed they are “employees” misclassified as...

3P Delivery, Inc. provides delivery services for major retailers.  It has historically classified its drivers as independent contractors and not employees. 3P Delivery was sued in 2008 by two drivers in Oregon and two drivers in...

Yesterday a federal court in Manhattan granted a motion for class action certification to a group of  adult dancers who have worked at the Penthouse Executive Club in New York City.  They alleged, among other things, that the...

The New York Construction Industry Fair Play Act goes into effect today, as previously noted in a detailed posting on this site  and in an article published in the New York Law Journal by a publisher of this blog.  From this...

Commentary: As noted previously in prior articles and postings on this blog, Congress is poised to pass a labor and a tax bill that will discourage businesses from misclassifying employees as independent contractors and end the...

Almost one year to the day following the joint statement by the Attorneys General of New York, New Jersey, and Montana that they intended to sue FedEx Ground for misclassifying drivers as independent contractors instead of...

Less than three months after settling independent contractor misclassification charges with the Massachusetts Attorney General for $3 million, FedEx Ground has agreed to pay Montana $2.3 million to settle that State’s...

Yesterday, just outside Washington, D.C., state and federal workforce agency officials met to discuss their joint efforts to crack down on independent contractor misclassification.  The forum, entitled “Worker Misclassification:...

On October 13, 2010, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed into law the Construction Workplace Misclassification Act, joining a growing number of states that have targeted an industry where misclassification of employees as...

Last week, a federal district court judge assigned to an independent contractor misclassification case granted class certification to workers who were treated as independent contractors but allegedly were misclassified as...