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đ Read more: https://jmadisonplc.com/blog/2025/02/delivery-driver-files-class-action-against-englander-fleetmaster-over-misclassification-and-wage-theft
J. Madison PLC, in partnership with Lichten & Liss-Riordan, P.C., has filed a class action lawsuit against Englander Transportation & Fleetmaster Express for misclassifying drivers, making illegal wage deductions, and violating labor laws.
âïž If you worked as a delivery driver for these companies since Feb 2022, you may be owed compensation.
Bedoya describes why the FTC has turned its attention to the problem of #WorkerMisclassification, in which employees are falsely claimed to be contractors, and thus deprived of the rights that workers are entitled to. Worker misclassification is *rampant*, and it transfers *billions* from workers to employers every year.
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> More broadly, the organizers are calling on Amazon to [âŠ] recognize its drivers as employees rather than subcontractors.
Yes, this is crucial, and all workers under such tight control by a boss, must be classified as employees with all the benefits that brings.
Abruzzo has taken a series of muscular, bold moves to protect American workers, turning the tide in the #ClassWar that the #OnePercent has waged on workers since the #Reagan administration. For example, #Abruzzo is working to turn #WorkerMisclassification - the fiction that an employee is a small business contracting with their boss, a staple of the #GigEconomy - into an #UnfairLaborPractice:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/01/10/see-you-in-the-funny-papers/#bidens-legacy
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Amazon now has the luxury of terminating its contract with the union's employer - the cutout that allows Amazon to maintain the #WorkerMisclassification pretext that these drivers in Amazon vans wearing Amazon uniforms delivering Amazon packages don't work for Amazon.
Amazon *hates* unions in ways that are hard for everyday people to grasp. One of the organizers of the union drive has been illegally terminated in retaliation for his labor activism:
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