USERY v. PILGRIM EQUIPMENT CO., INC.

No. 74-2909.

527 F.2d 1308 (1976)

W. J. USERY, Secretary of Labor, United States Department of Labor, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. PILGRIM EQUIPMENT COMPANY, INC., et al., Defendants-Appellees.

United States Court of Appeals, Fifth Circuit.

March 3, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William J. Kilberg, Sol. of Labor, Donald S. Shire, Carin Ann Clauss, Assoc. Sol., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., George T. Avery, William E. Everheart, Atty., Reg. Sol., U. S. Dept. of Labor, Dallas, Tex., Sandy McCormack, U. S. Dept. of Labor, Washington, D. C., for plaintiff-appellant.

William Key Wilde, Ron D. Daugherty, Houston, Tex., for defendants-appellees.

Before WISDOM, CLARK and RONEY, Circuit Judges:


CLARK, Circuit Judge:

The Secretary of Labor challenges the independent contractor status assigned to approximately 60 women operators of laundry pick-up stations by 10 related corporations, which we group here under the common appellation Pilgrim.1 In capsule, each operator works at a separate location to which customers bring items to be cleaned. Pilgrim picks up, cleans and returns the items. The operator then makes delivery to the...

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