Breakaway Courier Systems

A class action lawsuit has been filed against the bike messenger service for allegedly violating Massachusetts state law by classifying its couriers as independent contractors. Such a classification makes workers ineligible for overtime, unemployment pay, and workers compensation, and saves Breakaway Courier significant money in employee benefits. The lawsuit was filed in Suffolk Superior Court and alleges Breakaway's couriers "are not truly entrepreneurs who have the opportunity to grow a business, but are, instead, employees who have little discretion in what work they perform and how they perform it."