A new attempt to keep California’s independent contractor law AB5 from the state’s trucking sector was thoroughly rejected by a federal judge this week.
After truck parking and broker transparency grabbed headlines in 2023, experts see independent contractor status and truck emissions as top issues next year.
For freight agents attempting to navigate today’s volatile market, partnering with the right company can mean the difference between success and failure.
An NLRB action is being viewed by the Teamsters as providing an incentive for companies to consider independent contractors as employees.
A request by the Department of Labor in an ongoing legal appeal suggests its independent contractor rule won’t be made until August or September.
The so-called Olson case over AB5 draws interest from well beyond California.
Biden’s labor secretary pick says she’s ready to step in if West Coast dockworkers and their employers cannot resolve their remaining issues.
Customers can now tip Amazon drivers by saying “thank you,” but a lawsuit accuses the company of using tips for itself.
A Mercatus Center senior fellow said efforts to classify independent contractors as employees could result in fewer jobs.
Target-owned Shipt has come under fire for allegedly misclassifying workers as independent contractors.
A lawsuit filed in 2019 alleged
that the workers were misclassified
as independent contractors.
More than 300,000 current and former Instacart workers will receive a payout in the San Diego gig worker case.
A new proposed independent contractor rule from the Department of Labor could increase costs for trucking as well as for Uber and Lyft.
Lots of questions remain about how California’s AB5 law will impact the trucking industry in other states.
Using the economic realities test, an appellate court backed a lower-court ruling that a group of drivers were independent contractors, not employees.
The injunction that has kept California’s AB5 independent contractor law at bay since the end of 2019 has been formally lifted.
An appellate court reversed a lower court decision and found that a one-time Schneider independent contractor was actually an employee.
AB5 fallout and freight labor unrest are adding to inflation fears, Republican lawmakers are told.
Some California truckers who move containers in and out of the marine terminals at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach plan to participate in a work stoppage Wednesday to protest a controversial state law, AB5.
As some gig platforms remove fuel surcharges, Gridwise is stepping into the void with a new program offering 50 cents off per gallon.
