FedEx Sues Texas Workforce Commission
Misclassifying Workers as Independent Contractors
We have written numerous times about how widespread this issue has become in the construction industry, and now we see a new lawsuit filed by FedEx Ground that uses one of the oldest arguments we’ve heard: “It ain’t my problem! All of our folks are independent contractors. They hire their own workers and deliver for everyone and we have no control over them or what hours they drive. So, General Abbott, we don’t owe the Texas Workforce Commission any workers' comp fees.”
Legitimate? We don’t know yet. The courts will decide. What we do know is that when we hear that comment on the construction site we call it a “sub – sub” problem and usually the workers come up on the short end of that stick. On the construction site, the GC hires a sub that hires another sub to do the work and claims Independent Contractor and avoids FUTA, SUTA and any other taxes. [node:read-more:link]