Dole v. Amerilink Corp.

How courts have described this case

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• finding that because the installers had a self-determined opportunity for profit or loss, this factor indicates “contractor” status
• finding that costs of tools, vehicle, and insurance constitute a significant investment and contrast sharply with the experience of a typical clerical employee, who finds all of his office supplies waiting for him at his work-station, freely provided by the employer
• discussing the “control” the putative employer had over the installers and concluding that it was insufficient to make them employees
• “[T]his [quality control] constraint inheres in any subcontractor relationship and the Court does not find this isolated instance of control dis-positive”
• installers possess special skills of carpenters and electricians, which is indicative of contractor status

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).