Commissioner v. Richfield Oil Co.

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• concluding that “indirect control as well as direct control can demonstrate a joint employment relationship”
• holding that the job of picking cucumbers is “piecework that requires no great initiative, judgment, or foresight, or special skill” (internal quotation marks and citations omitted)
• finding that the putative joint employer’s “daily presence” on the jobsite and ability to “inspect all the work performed ... both while it was being done and after” its completion weighed in favor of finding joint employment
• finding that this factor favored employment status 27 where farmworkers had no ownership interest in the land and did not pay to upkeep the land, 28 though they provided their own tools
• noting the “fundamental principle” that a worker “may be employed by more than one entity at the same time”
• discussing both as stated in regulations under the Migrant and Seasonal Agricultural Worker Protection Act, 29 USC §§ 1801-72

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