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Leaked Documents Make Clear: Call Them Anything but “Employee” Recent revelations from leaked internal records have provided rare visibility into corporate strategies designed to avoid employee classification. These documents underline a growing national legal battle over employee misclassification, contractor-only labeling, and how far companies will go to justify independent contractor status even when workplace control…

Great news for delivery workers who should be classified as employees and not independent contractors. In a swift decision last week, the Massachusetts Superior Court enforced the Independent Contractor law and decided that it was not preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act (FAAA) of 1994. In Okeke v. Dynamex Operations East, Inc., the…

Contractors working on public works projects must pay their workers prevailing wages, even when the Department of Labor fails to set a prevailing wage rate for a particular job. In George et al v. National Water Main Cleaning Company et al, the contractor hired “catch basin cleaning” employees to clean state and city sewers. The…

Drivers challenged contractor labels and won stronger rights. The decision came from the Supreme Judicial Court in Martins v. 3PD, Inc. The court explained that drivers completed core delivery work, which falls inside the company’s normal business role. As a result, companies cannot label this work as an outside service. Later, the court confirmed that…