April 17, 2017
The National Labor Relations Board on Monday asked a D.C. Circuit panel to reconsider a decision reversing a board ruling categorizing FedEx drivers as employees amid their unionization push, citing court precedent conflicts over the method to determine independent contractor status.
March 03, 2017
The D.C. Circuit on Friday vacated a National Labor Relations Board ruling that certain FedEx drivers in Connecticut are employees under the National Labor Relations Act, saying this case is "indistinguishable" from an earlier case in which another D.C. panel said a group of Massachusetts drivers were independent contractors.
December 08, 2015
FedEx has told the D.C. Circuit that a case challenging the National Labor Relations Board's classification of delivery drivers as employees rather than as independent contractors is "indistinguishable" from a 2009 case in which the court ruled in FedEx's favor, arguing that precedent hasn't changed in the meantime.
August 18, 2015
It should have been a foregone conclusion that FedEx Home Delivery drivers in Hartford, Connecticut, are independent contractors, not employees, business and industry groups told the D.C. Circuit on Monday, ripping a National Labor Relations Board decision that found otherwise.