Rutherford Food Corp. v. McComb

How courts have described this case

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• holding that whether an employer-employee relationship exists does not depend on isolated factors but rather “upon the circumstances of the whole activity”
• recognizing that an individual is more likely to be an independent contractor for FLSA purposes if his earnings depend on the exercise of “initiative, judgment[,] or foresight”
• explaining that the boning supervisor exercised the prerogatives of an employer, including hiring workers, managing their work, and paying them
• holding that a job whose profits are based on efficiericy is “more like piecework than an enterprise that actually depended for ‘success upon the initiative, judgment or foresight of the typical independent contractor”
• noting that whether an individual is an employee under the FLSA depends not on “isolated factors but rather upon the circumstances of the whole activity”
• explaining that the boning supervisor exercised the prerogatives of an employer, including hiring workers, managing their work, and paying them

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).