I thought that might be an interesting question for this week. It’s not quite what it sounds like though, so let me explain. As you know, the federal government has been shut down since December 22, because our President and Congress can’t agree on a budget. But not all government agencies are entirely shut down. […]
Your “Independent Contractors” Are Probably Employees — and That’s a BIG Problem…
I know, I’ve written before about mis-classifiying workers as independent contractors, when legally they are really employees. I wrote in more detail about that here. So why am I back on that topic? For one thing, it’s not going away, and it’s not likely to any time soon. The IRS, the USDOL and their State […]
3.75 Million Reasons Why This is Not Just Another Discrimination Case…
Koch Foods of Mississippi, LLC a poultry processing plant just settled two discrimination suits against it. Unfortunately, this isn’t the first employment discrimination case and it won’t be the last. However I believe this case is more than that. First there are migrant workers complaining of abuse. There are women complaining of abuse and that […]
Has Wal-Mart Helped to Expand the Scope of Joint Employment?
The Emplawyerologist has posted on co-employment before. (Click here, here, here, here, here, and here for review.) In keeping with our mini-series we can learn lessons from Wal-Mart here as well. If The Emplawyerologist has already posted on this topic six times, could there really be anything new–other than Wal-Mart being a named defendant? Actually, […]