The U.S. Department of Labor announced it will move to rescind the Biden administration's 2024 independent contractor rule on ...

Industry groups support the federal proposal to rescind a 2024 regulation that makes it harder for businesses to classify workers as independent contracts under the Fair Labor Standards Act. which ...

Department of Labor releases proposed rule using economic reality test to help employers determine worker classification ...

The DOL proposed a new rule to simplify independent contractor classification, reverting to a framework similar to the 2021 rule.

We’ve written before about the “tennis match” that describes how, with changes in presidential parties, the Department of Labor (DOL) has proposed different tests to determine whether workers are ...

Reversal to an independent contractor rule with two core factors rather than 2024’s change to six factors with none greater ...

Employee or independent contractor? Many companies, such as Prime, rely on owner-operators and could be affected by changes in how "employees" are determined under the Fair Labor Standards Act. In a ...

The 2024 final rule creates an ambiguous and difficult-to-interpret standard for determining independent contractor status." ...

In a widely expected move, the U.S. Department of Labor has withdrawn a rule published in the last days of the Trump administration that changed the definition of independent contractor. The U.S.

The trucking industry has strong opinions about regulators’ independent contractor classification rules. But how important are these rules? The classification concerns a regulation that has little ...

The Department of Labor has announced it is reviewing the Biden administration’s 2024 worker classification guidance, which directs employers on how to determine whether a worker is an employee or ...