Baker v. Flint Engineering & Construction Co.

How courts have described this case

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• holding that this factor supported employee status because the workers had been paid at a fixed rate and had not incurred any risk of loss
• finding that rig welders were employees of general contractor even though parties signed an agreement stating an intent to maintain an independent relationship
• stating that, generally speaking, “ ‘[employees’ usually work for only one employer and such relationship is continuous and indefinite in duration” (quoting Dole v. Snell, 875 F.2d 802, 811 (10th Cir. 1989))
• noting that having opportunity for profit or loss is “consistent with the characteristics of being [an] independent businessm[a]n”
• determining that “economic realities of the relationship govern” if individual is liable under FLSA as employer
• concluding district court’s factual finding that workers were employees was not clearly erroneous in part because “there is absolutely no risk of loss on plaintiffs’ part”

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