Bennis Carrell v. Sunland Construction, Inc.

How courts have described this case

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• concluding that working for a company for three to sixteen weeks weighs against employee status
• noting that “[p]ipe welding, unlike other types of welding, requires specialized skills”
• noting plaintiff exercised great skill in pipe welding and initiative in generating business, but initiative was more limited \once on a job\
• observing that “most employee-status cases” will have “facts pointing in both directions”
• holding employment agreement is relevant to determining Fair Labor Standards Act claims
• finding workers were independent contractors where, among other things, they worked for defendant for three to sixteen weeks per year and frequently moved between jobs

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).