On Jan. 25, in a 3-1 ruling, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) returned to its long-standing independent-contractor standard—essentially reversing an Obama-era decision that made it harder for employers to classify workers as independent contractors, and reaffirmed the NLRB’s adherence to the traditional common-law test. In the ruling, titled SuperShuttle DFW, Inc., NLRB effectively overturned its 2014 decision in FedEx Home Delivery, holding that members of a group of franchisee shared-ride van drivers are independent contractors. The NLRB’s Republican majority wrote that the Obama-era FedEx case “significantly limited the importance of entrepreneurial opportunity by creating a new factor (‘rendering services as part of an independent business’) and then making entrepreneurial opportunity merely ‘one aspect’ of that factor.” Instead, the board reverted to an earlier common-law test that weighs, among other factors, the length of time a person is employed, the skills required to do the job and whether the contracted work is part of the company’s regular business. We can Help you determine what this means for you and your business! Give us a call 262-358-8297
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