Opinion ID: 1925364
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 5

Heading: Champagne

Text: The Vice-President of Champagne testified that Drivers are not required to be available at specific times to obtain work or driving jobs. RR at 346a. Even when a customer requests a specific driver, [i]f the driver don't want the job, he don't take the job and we simply tell the customer that the driver is not available. RR at 351. Champagne pays Drivers on a weekly basis at an hourly rate of six dollars. RR at 356a, 375a. Champagne sets the rate for its six or eight hour packages and suggests a gratuity of sixteen percent, although that amount has increased to eighteen percent in some areas. RR at 357a. Not every job is part of a package; for example, a trip to an airport would involve a pre-determined rate. RR at 364a. The Vice-President noted that on numerous occasions when Drivers were not available, he or his wife had to drive the customer. RR at 347a. The Department's findings were consistent with the ones it made for the preceding Appellees. Final Decision and Order of the Department of Labor and Industry, July 22, 2003, Docket No. 01-R-0011-1 at 1-10 (Final Decision). The Commonwealth Court reversed the Department regarding Champagne.