Independent contractors have more personal freedom and more control over their work, but more responsibility, too. Independent contractors, those mysterious workers who seem to have all the freedom in ...

The U.S. Department of Labor released a proposed rule to revise how it defines independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act, with a potentially problematic change that will affect ...

The Department of Labor will publish on Thursday its final rule clarifying the definition of independent contractor as it relates to the Fair Labor Standards Act, despite the Biden administration ...

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a new, more business-friendly definition of independent contractor published in the final days of the Trump administration must be reinstated, because the Biden ...

After publishing in early January a final rule to clarify the definition of independent contractor within the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Department of Labor is now proposing to withdraw the rule ...

Effective Jan. 1, New Hampshire began implementing a new definition of employee, which dramatically changes the criteria upon which a worker may be deemed an independent contractor in New Hampshire.

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is proposing to better define independent contractor in the context of the Fair Labor Standards Act. That law has long governed employer wage and hour ...

The Department of Labor on Tuesday published a proposed rule defining who’s an “independent contractor.” Part of what’s notable about this proposed rule is simply that we’re doing it. In the more than ...

In a decision titled The Atlanta Opera, Inc. and issued by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 (the “Decision”), the NLRB made it more difficult for employers to ...