March 13, 2026
A shipping company agreed to pay $7 million and reclassify its delivery drivers as employees to resolve findings that it improperly treated more than 1,000 drivers as independent contractors, the New Jersey attorney general's office said.
July 29, 2019
New Jersey's labor commissioner succeeded on Monday in extracting himself from a trucking company's suit alleging that the Garden State's employee classification law led to an unfair unemployment tax contribution burden after a federal judge invoked the Younger doctrine, abstaining from further hearing the case.
October 09, 2018
New Jersey's labor commissioner has asked a federal judge to toss a trucking company's lawsuit alleging the state's employee classification law led to an unfair unemployment contribution burden, or at least to put the brakes on it pending an upcoming Third Circuit ruling addressing the same preemption argument the company raised.
June 01, 2016
A New Jersey federal judge on Tuesday refused to toss a trucking company's lawsuit contending that state statutes classifying its drivers as employees, rather than independent contractors, violate federal law, rejecting the state labor commissioner's arguments that a related administrative dispute precludes the litigation.