FedEx Lawsuit

Given all of the controversy that surround the delivery drivers for Fedex Ground, it’s easy to forget that Fedex Ground is merely one portion of the overall corporate giant that is Fedex Corp.  However, all of these problems that center on the classification of Fedex Ground drivers as independent contractors could affect the company’s bottom […]

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Welcome to Pulaski & Middleman, LLC’s Fedex overtime lawsuit blog.  Recent events have led to a potential rolling tide of claims by Fedex delivery drivers, past and former, against the corporate giant that is Fedex based on a legal technicality that may seem rather tame on the surface, but whose result could have far-reaching ramifications […]

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When the government needs to determine whether or not someone is an employee or an independent contractor, there are several basic points that are examined.  The government is generally interested in providing this classification because of the tax implications that form the foundation of this label.  Below are a few examples of the elements of […]

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Part of the fallout from the Fedex employee v. independent contractor controversy has reached the state government level, as published in a story last summer in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette.  The article details the collection action from the California Employment Development Department, and states that the basis for this collection was a finding that Fedex had […]

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Yet another example of the problematic classification of Fedex drivers as independent contractors can be found from the news archives.  This story originally ran in the Boston Globe in early 2006, and it reported that Fedex drivers won the right to hold a secret ballot on whether or not to form a union.
The ability […]

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