Third Circuit Affirms $4.5 Million Verdict in Favor of Exotic Dancers

By Greg Mersol on September 18, 2019 Posted in Independent Contractors

A significant amount of wage and hour class/collective jurisprudence has developed around the issue of whether exotic dancers are employees or independent contractors. We’ve blogged many of these issues in the past [June 6, 2019, August 27, 2018, January 27, 2017, December 3, 2014, November 21, 2012, April 8, 2011]. There are many other cases … Continue Reading

Independent Contractor Trucker Dodges FAA Arbitration and Keeps His Class Action Alive

By John Lewis on May 19, 2017 Posted in Arbitration, Independent Contractors

In Oliveira v. New Prime, Inc., No. 15-2364 (May 12, 2017), the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit confronted two arbitration-related questions of first impression in that Circuit. In the case, Dominic Oliveira had signed an Independent Contractor Operating Agreement with New Prime, Inc., which contained an arbitration provision governed by the Commercial … Continue Reading

FedEx to Pay $228 Million in Independent Contractor Misclassification Settlement

By Todd Lebowitz on June 16, 2015 Posted in Independent Contractors

Things that $228 Million will buy: – LeBron James’s waterfront mansion in Miami, listed for $15 million – A 710-year old copy of the Magna Carta, sold in 2007 for $21.3 million – The Oakland A’s, sold in 2005 for $180 million – Three personal submarines, at $2 million each; and – Tivi Island in Fiji (yes, the … Continue Reading