Massachusetts labor and employment: Motion to Compel Arbitration Denied Over Disregard of the Personnel Record Law, Personnel Records Law, Retaliatory Investigations, Joint Employer Analysis under Massachusetts Wage and Hour Laws. Hernandez v. Universal Protection Service
In its recent landmark decision, Jinks v. Credico (USA) LLC, the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court set the standard for joint employer status in the context of the Commonwealth's notoriously stringent wage laws.
Perhaps the most significant development involving independent contractor compliance and misclassification issues in December 2021 received relatively scant attention: a detailed.
On Dec. 13, 2021, Massachusetts' highest court held that the multifactor standard of the Fair Labor Standards Act, and not the Massachusetts independent contractor law's so-called ABC test, .