NLRB sets new standard for contractors

The National Labor Relations Board issued new guidelines in January for determining how a worker qualifies as a longstanding independent contractor.

In a case involving SuperShuttle DFW, Inc., the Board found that shuttle van driver franchisees in the Dallas/Fort-Worth area are not employees under the National Labor Relations Act because they owned their own shuttle vans and had complete control over their daily schedule, working conditions, and method of payment which gives them significant entrepreneurial opportunity and control over how much money they earned. Workers who are defined as independent contractors are expressly excluded from the Act’s provisions.

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