Yesterday, the lawyers representing drivers who have sued Uber in California commenced another lawsuit on behalf of drivers alleging that the company misclassified them as independent contractors instead of employees. This lawsuit, though, is not against the company itself; rather, it is against Travis Kalanick, the former CEO and a

Earlier today, the U.S. Department of Labor issued a short, 3-sentence News Release where the recently-confirmed Labor Secretary, Alexander Acosta, announced that he has withdrawn the Labor Department’s formal guidance on two key issues facing businesses: joint employment and independent contractors.  The first guidance on joint employment, which was issued

April was a red-hot month for independent contractor misclassification cases. We report below on 10 cases in the courts and two before administrative agencies involving:

  • seven-figure proposed class action settlements with couriers providing services to three on-demand delivery companies (PostMates, DoorDash, and InstaCart);
  • court approvals of a nine-figure settlement between

The U.S. Department of Labor earlier today reissued its resources on independent contractor misclassification and grouped them together with resources from other federal and state agencies on the subject. This appears to be the Labor Department’s effort to create a type of one-stop shopping page for government materials on independent

In the past eight years, the Obama Administration has spearheaded enforcement initiatives on independent contractor misclassification through the U.S. Department of Labor and the IRS. That crackdown, however, seemed to be focused on the low-hanging fruit – companies that often had little or no defense to the claim that they