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Nov. 1, 2009

Who’s an Employee?

An opinion by the D.C. Circuit and the intervention of state attorneys general shake up a long-simmering employment dispute over the status of FedEx’s truck drivers.


Every day, representatives of two very different businesses walk into your office bearing packages. One worker displays the FedEx logo, the other wears the brown uniform of UPS. The two carriers function in much the same way, but one is classified by his company as an independent contractor and the other as an employee. The delivery companies are separated by two distinct visions of th...

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