{"id":194760,"date":"2008-08-20T23:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/fedex-faces-massive-judgements-on-misclassified-employees\/"},"modified":"2008-08-20T23:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T04:17:00","slug":"fedex-faces-massive-judgements-on-misclassified-employees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2008\/08\/20\/fedex-faces-massive-judgements-on-misclassified-employees\/","title":{"rendered":"FedEx Faces Massive Judgements on Misclassified Employees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx has been classifying its drivers as independent contractors for years, despite the fact that it, &#8220;tells its ground-service drivers when to work, what to charge customers and what kind of socks and shoes to wear,&#8221; and it looks like <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/apps\/news?pid=20601109&amp;sid=aLJxFLiMo58g&amp;refer=home\">a federal judge is about to rule against them<\/a> opening them up to billions of dollars in compensatory and punitive damages, and possibly even more in back taxes.<\/p>\n<p>What&#8217;s more, it&#8217;s likely to see successful unionization efforts once reclassification is completed.<\/p>\n<p>This is an increasing problem nationwide, and one would hope that there will be a crackdown soon.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FedEx has been classifying its drivers as independent contractors for years, despite the fact that it, &#8220;tells its ground-service drivers when to work, what to charge customers and what kind of socks and shoes to wear,&#8221; and it looks like a federal judge is about to rule against them opening them up to billions of &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[972,1023,1022],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-194760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-justice","category-labor","category-union"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194760"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}