From MinnPost, Jessica Lee reports on efforts by Minneapolis City Council members to protect workers classified as independent contractors. Jessica writes: Council members Steve Fletcher (Ward 3) and Linea Palmisano (Ward 13) are developing a set of new guidelines to give Minneapolis’ Department of Civil Rights authority to help for-hire workers — think construction crews, app-based workers, freelance artists, handymen or other gig…
The United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a press release stating that a Minnesota company will pay $350,000 to misclassified workers. The press release states: A Minnesota company that provided cable equipment recovery services to leading cable providers such as Comcast, Time Warner and Charter Communications, will pay $350,000 to drivers and market…
From TwinCities.com — “Rene Martinez considers himself lucky. Another person might say that he made his own luck. Deaf since birth, laid off from his teaching job in the Twin Cities in 2004, Martinez began driving a FedEx truck in St. Paul. Soon he was in charge of two routes; then multiple routes. Then he had…