Wisconsin Supreme Court Upholds Ruling That Amazon Flex Program Drivers Are Employees

On March 26, the Wisconsin Supreme Court rejected an Amazon appeal, contending that the e-commerce giant can designate its delivery personnel as independent vendors.
A lower court decision from April 2023 that determined that some delivery drivers in the Amazon Flex system were employees for purposes of poverty insurance taxation, as the condition Labor and Industry Review Commission claimed, and no independent contractors as the online retail giant claimed, was upheld by the unanimous decision of the high court.
Amazon had appealed the 2023 decision. However, in its decision ( pdf ), the Wisconsin Supreme Court dismissed Amazon’s appeal and called it “improvidently granted”, meaning the Supreme Court should not have reviewed the case….

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