Author: Richard Reibstein Esq.

  On July 15, 2010, the Massachusetts Attorney General’s Office announced that it had reached an agreement with FedEx Ground to settle a citation that the company was misclassifying its drivers as independent contractors...

The Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) wasted no time in holding a hearing on the “Employee Misclassification Prevention Act” (EMPA), which was introduced jointly on April 22, 2010 by the Senate (S....

The first decision on the merits has been issued in the FedEx Ground class action “independent contractor” cases. . . . On May 28, 2010, Judge Robert L. Miller, Jr., the judge assigned to hear and decide all of these Fed Ex Ground cases, granted summary judgment in favor of the Illinois plaintiffs on their wage claims under the Illinois Wage Act. . . . The decision by Judge Miller is limited to the statutory claims under a single state’s wage law. He expressly noted in his decision that he was not deciding the common law claims brought by the Illinois plaintiffs. Nonetheless, this decision by Judge Miller is a partial setback for Fed Ex, which has experienced mixed results in the courts to date.

As a regular subscriber to various alerts involving misclassification of employees as independent contractors, I see on a daily basis an array of articles by lawyers warning businesses of impending doom if they continue to use...

This is the first blog post for IndependentContractorCompliance.com, a website dedicated to three objectives: Collecting and maintaining legal resources on the subject of independent contractors misclassification and compliance...