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Supreme Court: Drivers hauling baked goods are in transportation, not baking (finance.yahoo.com)

submitted 6 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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.”

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[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For others with so many questions about the why of this case...

This ruling allows the independent contractors that deliver goods for a large bakery (Flowers Foods) to be exempt from arbitration requirements under the Federal Arbitration Act (FAA), and instead take their pay dispute to court.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 months ago

Arbitration is death for the little guy’s negotiating power. It costs about $150 to pursue a claim in small claims court, and about $1500 to pursue a claim in arbitration.

For most individual earners in a pay dispute, that arbitration fee is insurmountable and essentially means they’re powerless.

I ran into this problem when I discovered the contract I’d hired a lawyer to draw up for my freelancing business had an arbitration clause. First time I had a client who wouldn’t pay, I was broke and therefore had no recourse.