New Resource: CA UIAB Agrees FedEx G/HD Drivers are Employees - November 28, 2006

The California Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board Chief Administrative Law Judge ruled that FedEx Ground did not have a legal leg to stand on in challenging the California Employment Development Dept. audit that found FedEx Ground owed the state more than $7 million for wrongly classifying its single route drivers as contractors.

In 17 concise pages, the ALJ demolished the FedEx Ground argument that drivers were "independent contractors."

Kind of makes any "concessions" seem like a last ditch effort to avoid scrutiny by other states or the feds.  Because if one state is going to be made whole through investigating the FedEx contractor scam, one can be certain that other taxmen won't be left holding the bag.

More important to drivers however is why would New Jersey drivers be covered by unemployment insurance as part of a settlement while other states are still fighting legal battles.  Why are NJ drivers getting their legal benefits as employees while no one else in the country does?