October 31, 2023
Flowers Foods and its subsidiaries can't dismiss or require arbitration of workers' claims that the company misclassified them as independent contractors and owed them wages, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled Tuesday while granting the companies' request to stay the case pending a U.S. Supreme Court decision in a related suit.
October 24, 2023
The U.S. Supreme Court’s decision to hear a case this term exploring whether a worker is exempt from federal arbitration law by virtue of their role in transportation is poised to make an impact on employment litigation already in the judicial pipeline, months before the justices issue their opinion. Here, Law360 reviews four cases that could soon see an impact.
July 18, 2023
A Flowers Foods subsidiary asked a Massachusetts federal judge to dismiss and send into arbitration two distributors' suit alleging they were misclassified as independent contractors and shorted on wages, saying that state law binds them to arbitrate their claims.
March 31, 2022
Flowers Foods and two other bakery companies can't escape a lawsuit claiming they misclassified two of their distributors as independent contractors, a Massachusetts federal judge ruled, saying the drivers fall under the Federal Arbitration Act exemption for interstate workers.