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New York State Labor Department Latest to Find FedEx Illegally Classifies Package-Delivery Drivers as Independent Contractors

U.S. Newswire, April, 2008

To: LEGAL AFFAIRS EDITORS

Contact: Peter W. Overs, Jr., Esq., of Harwood Feffer LLP, +1- 212-935-7400, povers@hfesq.com

ALBANY, N.Y., April 3, 2008 /PRNewswire/ -- The New York Department of Labor is the latest government agency to rule that FedEx Ground/Home Delivery package-delivery drivers are company employees -- not independent contractors -- who have virtually "no control over the nature of the services they provide."

The Department's February 28, 2007 decision in the case of former long-time driver David Oberhelman, whose route was primarily in the area of Saratoga Springs ...

 

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