A recent U.S. Supreme Court decision helps define the legal status of transportation workers at companies that are not primarily involved in transportation. The post Supreme Court: Drivers hauling baked goods are in transportation, not baking appeared first on FreightWaves.

But the Supreme Court’s April 12 ruling that they are in the transportation business opens the door for them to take the dispute to court.

That’s because the FAA — in its very first section — exempts from its mandate several types of workers, such as railroad employees and “any other class of workers engaged in foreign or interstate commerce.”

  • @CrackhappyEnglish
    65•2 months ago

    So after reading this, and please someone correct me, this is good for the workers, yes?

    • @nandeEbisuEnglish
      42•2 months ago

      In this case yes, because transportation workers have special protections, but it can just as easily apply to strip transportation workers of rights given to bakery workers in different circumstances.

      I think it’s kind of neutral.

      • @almar_quigleyEnglish
        3•2 months ago

        But at least it’s defined now so they don’t have wiggle room to take advantage of grey areas.

        • @[email protected]English
          1•2 months ago

          Every category has a surrounding grey area. Maximizing the number of categories is a path to maximizing the total grey area.