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, […]