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Delivery Drivers Sue Amazon Over Misclassification, Failure to Pay Overtime and the Minimum Wage
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<blockquote data-quote="cheryl" data-source="post: 2524497" data-attributes="member: 1"><p><a href="http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19712/delivery_drivers_sue_amazon_over_misclassification" target="_blank"><strong>Delivery Drivers Sue Amazon Over Misclassification, Failure to Pay Overtime and the Minimum Wage - In These Times</strong></a></p><p></p><p>With wage and hour lawsuits becoming increasingly common across the country, there was little reason for the lawyers at Amazon.com’s Seattle headquarters to be surprised when one landed on their doorstep recently. But they may have been concerned to learn that their newest legal adversary is “Sledgehammer Shannon” Liss-Riordan, a <a href="http://www.llrlaw.com/shannon-liss-riordan/" target="_blank">Boston attorney</a> who gained legal fame by beating corporate giants like FedEx and Starbucks in just these kinds of contests.</p><p></p><p>The new lawsuit against Amazon is similar to one of Liss-Riordan’s best known cases—a suit against FedEx that charged the company was misclassifying delivery drivers as independent contractors when the workers were, as a matter of law, regular employees. Liss-Riordan won that fight and, this year, FedEx announced that it would <a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fedex-settlement-idUSKCN0Z229Q" target="_blank">give up on a series of related legal fights and pay</a> $240 million to some 12,000 drivers in 20 states.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="cheryl, post: 2524497, member: 1"] [URL='http://inthesetimes.com/working/entry/19712/delivery_drivers_sue_amazon_over_misclassification'][B]Delivery Drivers Sue Amazon Over Misclassification, Failure to Pay Overtime and the Minimum Wage - In These Times[/B][/URL] With wage and hour lawsuits becoming increasingly common across the country, there was little reason for the lawyers at Amazon.com’s Seattle headquarters to be surprised when one landed on their doorstep recently. But they may have been concerned to learn that their newest legal adversary is “Sledgehammer Shannon” Liss-Riordan, a [URL='http://www.llrlaw.com/shannon-liss-riordan/']Boston attorney[/URL] who gained legal fame by beating corporate giants like FedEx and Starbucks in just these kinds of contests. The new lawsuit against Amazon is similar to one of Liss-Riordan’s best known cases—a suit against FedEx that charged the company was misclassifying delivery drivers as independent contractors when the workers were, as a matter of law, regular employees. Liss-Riordan won that fight and, this year, FedEx announced that it would [URL='http://www.reuters.com/article/us-fedex-settlement-idUSKCN0Z229Q']give up on a series of related legal fights and pay[/URL] $240 million to some 12,000 drivers in 20 states. [/QUOTE]
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