April 14, 2023
National Freight owes a class of truckers damages based on pay deductions they faced while being misclassified as independent contractors, the truckers told a New Jersey federal court, arguing that the company is trying to fool the court into using another method.
April 04, 2023
National Freight shouldn't be allowed to argue during a misclassification trial that it can recover payments from drivers, a class of truckers told a New Jersey federal court, saying that defense comes eight years too late.
February 08, 2023
A New Jersey federal court declined to decertify a class of truckers who allege that a delivery logistics company misclassified them as independent contractors and illegally withheld wages, ruling Tuesday that the company's motion to unwind the class was nothing more than a rehashing of previously rejected arguments.
November 01, 2022
Logistics company National Freight pressed a New Jersey federal court to decertify a class of truckers claiming they were misclassified as independent contractors, saying an appeals court's decision that choice-of-law provisions in a service agreement were irrelevant supports untangling the class.
June 10, 2022
A New Jersey federal judge ruled that a group of truckers are employees, not independent contractors, of logistics company National Freight, giving the workers a win in their suit accusing the company of misclassifying drivers to withhold pay for business expenses.
February 08, 2022
A group of truckers meet the requirements of a key test that shows they were independent contractors, not employees, logistics company National Freight said, urging a New Jersey federal judge to shoot down the truckers' request for a win on their misclassification claim.
May 11, 2020
A long-running proposed class action accusing logistics giant National Freight Inc. of denying drivers employee status and shorting their pay has gone to mediation, according to a motion filed Monday in New Jersey federal court.
October 21, 2019
National Freight Inc. told a New Jersey federal judge that drivers claiming they were denied employee status and shorted on pay shouldn't be certified as a class, insisting there's still an open choice-of-law dispute and the drivers' worker status and wages varied widely.
September 04, 2019
Former National Freight Inc. truckers have called on a New Jersey federal court to certify a class of company drivers who made deliveries to Trader Joe's stores on the East Coast, claiming the logistics company misclassified them as independent contractors and made unlawful deductions from their paychecks.
June 11, 2018
A federal judge ruled Monday that New Jersey law governs a group of Pennsylvania and Rhode Island truckers' proposed class action alleging National Freight Inc. misclassified them as independent contractors and made illegal wage deductions, saying the claims, parties and relationships under dispute are most connected to the Garden State.