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Miss. Code Ann. § 77-8-21

Drivers as independent contractors

Laws, 2016, ch. 328, § 11, eff from and after July 1, 2016.

Drivers shall be independent contractors and not employees of the transportation network company if all of the following conditions are met:

The transportation network company does not prescribe specific hours during which a transportation network company driver must be logged into the transportation network company’s digital platform;

The transportation network company imposes no restrictions on the transportation network company driver’s ability to utilize digital platforms from other transportation network companies;

The transportation network company does not assign a transportation network company driver a particular territory in which to operate;

The transportation network company does not restrict a transportation network company driver from engaging in any other occupation or business; and

The transportation network company and transportation network company driver agree in writing that the driver is an independent contractor of the transportation network company.

Current official text: Mississippi Code (LexisNexis). Digitized from the UniCourt Code Improvement Commission public-domain capture. Reproduced from public-domain Mississippi statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.