The Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) defines the word "employee" as "any individual employed by an employer." 29 U.S.C. §203(e)(1). The FLSA also includes a definition of "employ" as "suffer or permit ...
The U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) issued a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (“2026 Proposed Rule”) that would again revise the standard used to determine whether a ...
The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division recently issued guidance on its independent contractor misclassification enforcement. The guidance comes as the 2024 Independent Contractor Rule is ...
The debate over independent contractors is taking off again. In recent weeks, the Department of Labor issued its long-awaited independent contractor rule. The new directive reverses a Biden-era ...
The U.S. Department of Labor announced it will move to rescind the Biden administration's 2024 independent contractor rule on Friday, according to a document set to be published in the Federal ...
What the federal government considers an independent contractor vs. an employee is once again changing based on the change in administration. The U.S. Department of Labor is reviewing a 2024 ...
Massachusetts contractor willfully and repeatedly exposed workers to safety hazards, according to the US Dept. of Labor Occupational Safety and health Administration . March 4, 2026 Industry groups ...
Congress should consider statutory approaches to ease independent contractors’ access to employment benefits, Sen. Bill Cassidy, chair of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, ...
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