Chilingirian v. City of Fraser

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• finding that a law firm was not an employee where the law firm had many clients, maintained its own office; was not paid a salary but instead billed monthly, and was not subject to control with respect to the method of work, but only the result achieved
• declining to apply the control test in favor of the economic realities test
• discussing relevancy of pension programs, devotion of time, and control over methodology
• “The economic reality test looks to the totality of the circumstances surrounding the work performed.”
• “We 3 See also Tata v Muskovitz, 354 Mich 695, 699; 94 NW2d 71 (1959) (adopting the test from Justice SMITH’s dissent in Powell v Employment Security Comm, 345 Mich 455, 462; 75 NW2d 874 (1956)

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