Laura L. OST, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. WEST SUBURBAN TRAVELERS LIMOUSINE, INC., Defendant-Appellee

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• finding that an affidavit from an employee that her employer had twenty-four employees was “too vague a submission to carry her burden” to prove that her employer was covered by Title VII
• noting that the drivers were paid by passengers, not the dispatching company
• noting that limousine drivers could take any route they choose
• reasoning that the facts that drivers could “work whatever days they preferred and were free to refuse any assignments they wished . . . indicate[d] that the manner in which the drivers performed their services . . . was primarily within their own control”
• “[Pjlaintiffs own opinions about her work performance or qualifications do not sufficiently cast doubt on the legitimacy of her employer’s proffered reason for the employment actions.”
• ap- plying Knight factors and concluding that limousine drivers were independent contractors

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