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Right to Assign Additional Projects to Each Driver-Employee
Petitioner argues that while TLC was leasing a driver-
employee to a trucking company client, TLC had no right to lease
that driver-employee to another trucking company client and
thereby assign additional projects to such driver-employee.
According to petitioner, each driver-employee was effectively
assigned to only one trucking company client.
Respondent counters that the exclusive lease agreement gave
TLC the right to lease a driver-employee to more than one truck-
ing company client and thereby assign additional projects to such
driver-employee.
We have found that while TLC was leasing a driver-employee
to a trucking company client, TLC had the right to lease that
driver-employee to another trucking company client and thereby
assign additional projects to such driver-employee. The parties
agree that, once TLC assigned a driver-employee to a trucking
company client, TLC did not reassign such driver-employee to
another trucking company client without permission from the
trucking company client to which TLC had assigned such driver-
employee. Such a practice of TLC was, we believe, a sound
business practice. TLC, like any business, was interested in
accommodating, to the extent feasible, the requests of its
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