FedEx Lawsuit

In a somewhat stunning turn of events and after years of heated denials and refusals to agree with courts, the NLRB and labor unions, Fedex Ground announced that it will be abandoning its current independent contractor model in California.  The announcement was published on CNN Money, and comes on the heels of several negative results […]

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As one would expect, Fedex Ground did not react favorably to the recent California Court of Appeals decision that held that Fedex Ground drivers should have been classified as full time employees as opposed to independent contractors at Fedex.  The brief story appeared recently in the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, and the reaction appears below:
“FedEx Ground said […]

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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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As we continue to dig around the web in an attempt to help you gain a full understanding of the controversy that exists between Fedex, its drivers and different branches of state and federal governments, we came across another news item from the Boston Globe, originally published in 2005. 
The story reports that four current […]

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