Wage and Hour Division proposed a new rule to determine whether workers are independent contractors or employees under federal wage-and-hour laws. The new rule proposes to rescind the 2024 Biden-era ...
The U.S. Department of Labor announced it will move to rescind the Biden administration's 2024 independent contractor rule on ...
On 26 February 2026, the US Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) that would again modify the framework to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent ...
The Department of Labor announced a new test for determining independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The test describes specific facts that may result in a ...
The FLSA’s independent contractor regulations, as with so many of the federal laws under DOL’s enforcement purview, have been subject to a veritable table tennis match between presidential ...
A Department of Labor rule adopted under the Biden administration had many brokers worried about their ability to work as ...
Misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor is one of the key reasons employers fail to pay overtime. In first three weeks of February, the DOL hit 24 employers for overtime violations ...