The Washington Court docket of Appeals affirmed a decrease court docket’s dedication that a web-based pet providers platform wasn’t an employer and pet service suppliers on the platform weren’t “employees” below the Industrial Insurance coverage Act.
In a June 6 opinion, Decide Bradley A. Maxa decided that pet service suppliers on A Place for Rover Inc., a web-based platform for pet providers, weren’t working below an impartial contractor and, due to this fact, the Superior Court docket hadn’t erred in reversing the Division of Labor and Industries’ order requiring Rover to pay an evaluation of $219,947.75 in industrial insurance coverage taxes and fines.
