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FedEx Ground Drivers Win Group Status in Eight States
July 28 (Bloomberg) -- FedEx Corp. must face more state class-action lawsuits by contract drivers who claim they deserve benefits because the company treats them as full-time workers by mandating their clothing, hours and prices, a judge said.
U.S. District Judge Robert Miller in South Bend, Indiana, yesterday granted drivers’ request to sue as groups on behalf of workers in Arizona, Georgia, Ohio, Utah, Louisiana, Nevada, North Carolina and Oregon. In the same ruling, Miller denied similar requests by drivers in Colorado, Connecticut and Vermont as well as claims that some of the lawsuits should cover all such FedEx drivers in the U.S.
Judges have certified 28 such cases as class actions while rejecting 14, said Lynn Faris, the lead attorney for the drivers.
“If we succeed in these, as we expect to, FedEx will have the vast majority of its largest markets directly affected by adverse rulings regarding its current illegally skewed playing field to deal with,” Faris said in an e-mail.
FedEx Ground Drivers Win Group Status in Eight States (Update1) - Bloomberg.com
