From Lexology — Amy Pierce writes “a California federal district court, in Taylor v. Shippers Transport Express, Inc., found that a class of current and former truck drivers had been misclassified as independent contractors and not employees by Shippers Transport Express, Inc. (STE). In granting the drivers’ motion for partial summary judgment, the court found that, notwithstanding that the drivers and STE’s agreement contemplated that the drivers were independent contractors, the drivers were STE employees premised, in part, on its findings that STE not only retained the right to exercise control over the manner and means of the truckers’ accomplishing the desired results, but it also exercised this control…”
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