independent contractor classification

STG Logistics drivers in New Jersey will be able to receive a payout for misclassification.

A lawsuit involving the question of independent contractor vs. employee status is now a class action.

A crash involving an independent owner operator ultimately caught up 3 carriers in case involving vicarious responsibility.

Changes in the New Jersey independent contractor rule, revealed last week, are taking some of the edge off earlier hostility to the proposal when it was first introduced. But what remains is still being viewed by those who hire independent contractors as an ABC test that will be one of the most stringent in the […]

A New Jersey delivery company will reclassify its drivers as full time employees and not as independent contractors. (Photo: Shutterstock)

NJ truck driving school settlement resolves lawsuit over driver misclassification.

The Trump administration is moving to replace the Biden administration IC rule through a rulemaking process.

The major trucking lobbies are unified when it comes to truck parking and freight fraud but remain divided on other key issues.

The last-gasp OOIDA fight against the AB5 independent contractor law in California’s trucking sector has suffered defeat at the appellate level.

The ping-pong question of how the National Labor Relations Board defines independent contractors is on hold, for now, in a key trucking case.

Policies instituted over the past four years during the Biden-Harris administration will likely be reversed or sped up – many to the benefit of the trucking industry.

A second front will be opened in the legal battle over whether Amazon is a joint employer of drivers along with its delivery service partners.

A federal court decision on an Illinois employment law could pose a legal threat to carriers well beyond the state’s borders.

GOP lawmakers have asked owner-operators for rules they want to see overturned following a landmark Supreme Court decision.

The key court battle to block the Biden administration’s independent contractor rule is in Louisiana, and a request for an injunction against the rule has been taken a step up in the federal courts.

An earlier ruling that a group of drivers in Amazon’s Flex program in Wisconsin are employees rather than independent contractors has effectively been upheld.