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<blockquote data-quote="dmac1" data-source="post: 3669267" data-attributes="member: 60252"><p>Do minimum wage workers EVER get great benefits??????? Most ISPs can barely pay more than minimum wage, so benefits are rarely offered. I guess you could call being able to take a day off whenever you want (without pay) a 'benefit' but that only happens because ISPs have a hard time getting a driver into the system, so they likely won't 'fire' a driver unless the driver has other issues. </p><p></p><p>One of the original issues in the big class action case was supposed to be reimbursements for benefits that express drivers got but 'contractors' didn't get for doing the same work. It was supposed to be a violation of ERISA (benefit) laws, but that claim got dropped somewhere along the way, along with other claims drivers (contractors) had made back when most contractors drove their own routes. </p><p></p><p>With the ISP plan, the claim for benefits for employee drivers might be stronger because there is no doubt that drivers are employees (in most cases) today. The question of whether fedex is a co-employer might be more worth filing a lawsuit over in order to pursue the benefits claim. Someone working for an ISP for more than a year or two would lose a good amount in $$$ in benefits compared to an express employee. That MIGHT be just enough to make a lawsuit a viable option seeking to find that fedex is a co-employer outside the issue of forming a union, and might be valuable enough to make drivers consider a union. </p><p></p><p>But I believe that better for drivers than unionization would be getting a ruling in favor of drivers getting a ruling that fedex is either the 'actual' employer, or at least a co-employer.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="dmac1, post: 3669267, member: 60252"] Do minimum wage workers EVER get great benefits??????? Most ISPs can barely pay more than minimum wage, so benefits are rarely offered. I guess you could call being able to take a day off whenever you want (without pay) a 'benefit' but that only happens because ISPs have a hard time getting a driver into the system, so they likely won't 'fire' a driver unless the driver has other issues. One of the original issues in the big class action case was supposed to be reimbursements for benefits that express drivers got but 'contractors' didn't get for doing the same work. It was supposed to be a violation of ERISA (benefit) laws, but that claim got dropped somewhere along the way, along with other claims drivers (contractors) had made back when most contractors drove their own routes. With the ISP plan, the claim for benefits for employee drivers might be stronger because there is no doubt that drivers are employees (in most cases) today. The question of whether fedex is a co-employer might be more worth filing a lawsuit over in order to pursue the benefits claim. Someone working for an ISP for more than a year or two would lose a good amount in $$$ in benefits compared to an express employee. That MIGHT be just enough to make a lawsuit a viable option seeking to find that fedex is a co-employer outside the issue of forming a union, and might be valuable enough to make drivers consider a union. But I believe that better for drivers than unionization would be getting a ruling in favor of drivers getting a ruling that fedex is either the 'actual' employer, or at least a co-employer. [/QUOTE]
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