Raymond J. Donovan, Secretary of Labor, U. S. Department of Labor, Plaintiff v. Tehco, Inc., a Corporation, and Thomas E. Howell, Iii, an Individual

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• recognizing that a label in the FLSA context “is dispositive only to the degree that it mirrors the economic reality of the relationship”
• analyzing economic realities of employment relationship in context of Fair Labor Standards Act
• analyzing economic realities of employment relationship in context of Fair Labor Standards Act
• rejecting argument that putative employee’s discretion to choose job assignments, pay structure, and work patterns “counterbalance[d] the strong indicia of employee status” because “[t]he totality of the circumstances” showed that he “was not an independent businessman in any meaningful sense”
• A label is “dispositive only to the degree that it mirrors the economic reality of the relationship.”
• “[T]he label attached to the relationship is dispositive only to the degree that it mirrors the economic reality of the relation- ship.”

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