Mintz Levin Explores Recent Worker Classification Decision

In "Employment Law Summer Recap 2014: Part 1 of 11 – FedEx sings Nico & Vinz’s “Am I Wrong”…to Classify Our Drivers as Independent Contractors?'", Mintz Levin explains that:

"[A] decision handed down by a three-judge panel out of the 9th Circuit in Alexander v. FedEx Ground Package System, Inc. said that FedEx exercised too much control over these folks (and by folks, I mean more than 2,300 drivers operating in Oregon and California), and as a result, it should have classified them as employees rather than as independent contractors."

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