The board found that Velox Express workers are employees, not
independent contractors, so therefore Velox Express violated the NLRA when it fired an employee for complaining about the way workers were being treated.
House Bill 1095 would create the Empower
Independent Contractors Act of 2019, said state Rep.
With the Flexible Workforce acquisition, Openforce is able to offer clients an even larger set of solutions, insurance resources, and technologies to recruit, onboard, and retain
independent contractors.
Kelli Bondy Troutman, vice president, director of communications, LUBA Workers' Comp, said it is commonly known that employees are covered under workers' compensation and
independent contractors are responsible for their own coverage.
A United States federal court recently found that insurance agents working under
independent contractor agreements for a major insurance company were employees for purposes of pursuing pension and other benefits under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ("ERISA").
Last year Buncombe County Superior Court Judge Casey Viser granted RFI's motion for summary judgment, finding that Charlton was working as an
independent contractor, and not an RFI employee.
Largely driven by the gig economy, studies show that by 2020 at least 40 percent of all workers will be
independent contractors, as opposed to traditional employees.
American Family Ins Co, et al., which found that the plaintiff insurance agents are American Family Insurance Group employees as opposed to
independent contractors.
In order to arrive at the decision which will make the most sense for your company, its important to first understand some of the key differences between working with
independent contractors versus having employees on staff.
Where defendant companies were awarded summary judgment on a claim by plaintiff delivery drivers that they were misclassified as
independent contractors, the judgment must be vacated because, although 'prong two' of the Massachusetts
independent contractor statute is preempted by the Federal Aviation Administration Authorization Act, the remainder of the statute is severable and applicable to the plaintiffs.
During this audit of her personal returns, the IRS requested the documents related to Nelly's
independent contractors. The documents were requested not to determine whether the classification was correct but to determine whether Carney had paid the correct amount of personal taxes related to her business.