Tag: State IC Laws and Selected Bills

The Massachusetts Delivery Association (MDA) has succeeded in its appeal of a federal district court’s dismissal of its lawsuit to invalidate the Massachusetts Independent Contractor Law as an impermissible law “related to a...

California joins a growing list of states that have enacted independent contractor misclassification legislation in the past four years.  This new law, signed by Governor Jerry Brown on October 9, 2011, adds harsh financial...

The Utah House approved on February 10, 2011 a bill (S.B. 35) targeting construction companies that classify individuals as owners in order to avoid paying for workers’ compensation insurance and unemployment insurance or...

The Pennsylvania Construction Workplace Misclassification Act was signed into law on October 13, 2010.  Also called House Bill 400 and Act 72 of 2010, the new law went into effect on February 10, 2011. Earlier this month, the...

According to an article published in the Bangor Daily News on January 23, 2011, Maine Governor Paul LePage has abolished a task force created by his predecessor to examine independent contractor misclassification in Maine and...

The New York Construction Industry Fair Play Act goes into effect today, as previously noted in a detailed posting on this site  and in an article published in the New York Law Journal by a publisher of this blog.  From this...

On October 13, 2010, Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell signed into law the Construction Workplace Misclassification Act, joining a growing number of states that have targeted an industry where misclassification of employees as...

In the absence of federal legislation addressing the issue of misclassification of employees as independent contractors, no less than 16 states have passed their own laws seeking to curtail misclassification of employees as...

New York has a new law seeking to curtail in the building and construction industry the practice of misclassifying employees as independent contractors (ICs).  On August 27, 2010, Governor Paterson signed into law the New York...

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.