The ping-pong question of how the National Labor Relations Board defines independent contractors is on hold, for now, in a key trucking case.
Policies instituted over the past four years during the Biden-Harris administration will likely be reversed or sped up – many to the benefit of the trucking industry.
A second front will be opened in the legal battle over whether Amazon is a joint employer of drivers along with its delivery service partners.
A federal court decision on an Illinois employment law could pose a legal threat to carriers well beyond the state’s borders.
GOP lawmakers have asked owner-operators for rules they want to see overturned following a landmark Supreme Court decision.
The key court battle to block the Biden administration’s independent contractor rule is in Louisiana, and a request for an injunction against the rule has been taken a step up in the federal courts.
An earlier ruling that a group of drivers in Amazon’s Flex program in Wisconsin are employees rather than independent contractors has effectively been upheld.
