FedEx paid nearly $470m to learn this lesson… |

FedEx paid nearly $470m to learn this lesson…

ID 15540928 © Olivier Le Queinec | Dreamstime.com By Adam Clermont 06/05/2026 (…but don’t confuse the DOL rule with the one that bites.) The US logistics sector is built on layers of subcontracting: trucking carriers farming out capacity to fleet contractors, warehouse operators staffing up through agencies, and parcel giants routing deliveries through nominally independent service providers. It is a model predicated on a clean legal separation between the company that controls the work and the company that employs the workers. The Department of Labor’s (DOL) proposed joint employer rule – …