W. J. Usery, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff v. Pilgrim Equipment Company, Inc.

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• ruling workers showed insufficient initiative when \[a]ll major components open to initiative ... [were] controlled by [the employer]\
• suggesting that general skills, “such as business sense, salesmanship, personality and efficiency,” are not relevant to the employee-status inquiry
• finding that \[i]n the total context of the relationship neither the right to hire employees nor the right to set hours\ indicated such lack of control by [defendant] as would show that the laundry operators were independent contractors
• finding that “[i]n the total context of the relationship neither the right to hire employees nor the right to set hours” indicated such lack of control by [defendant] as would show that the laundry operators were independent contractors
• holding that “broader economic realities are determinative”
• evaluating whether the laundry-operator plaintiffs were able to leave their work and transfer to new employment when they had \nothing to transfer but their own labor\

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