Category: Massachusetts
Malden business owners indicted for falsely misclassifying workers, concealing more than $2.8 million in payroll
From the Boston Globe, Jackson Cote reports that two owners of a cleaning company have been…
Massachusetts Enacts Law on Noncompete Agreements
From Lexology, David J. Santeusanio and Andrew Silvia provide an excellent overview of the Massachusetts statute governing noncompete…
Massachusetts Legislature Passes Comprehensive Noncompete Reform
From Lexology, Melissa McDonagh and Kevin Burke report on the recently passed (but not yet signed…
SJC justices urge lawmakers to update independent contractor law
From MassLive, Shira Schoenberg reports that Massachusetts Supreme Court Justices encouraged the legislature to clarify the state’s independent…
Mass Attorney General Leads Multi-State Effort To Curb Worker Misclassification
From Framingham Source, Susan Petroni reports tha Massachusetts Attorney General Maura Healy joined in a brief to the…
Out-of-State Workers May Bring Suit under Massachusetts Independent Contractor Statute
This is a Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court case from 2013 but it came up in a…
Harvard University Gets Lesson In “Higher Education” In Independent Contractor Case
From JDSupra, Mark Tabakman reports on a settlement between Harvard University and therapists and acupuncturists who alleged that…
Patriot Ledger delivery drivers ruled employees, not contractors
From The Boston Globe, Katie Johnston reports on the Appeals Court decision that newspaper delivery drivers were employees…
Massachusetts Appeals Court rules against Gatehouse, says its newspaper carriers are employees
From MassLive.com, Shira Schoenberg reports that the Massachusetts Appeals Court found that a newspaper carrier was an…
Massachusetts high court case considers workers’ compensation for newspaper deliverers
From MassLive, Shira Schoenberg reports that the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court is considering a case in which a…
Judge rules taxi driver is an employee, not contractor
From the Gloucester Times, Mary Markos reports that judge found a taxi driver to be an employee and not…
2016 Massachusetts Employment Law Year In Review
From the National Law Review, Robert Sheridan reviews the developments in 2016 in employment law in Massachusetts…
