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Troutman Pepper Locke

Republican-Backed Congressional Proposal in Congress Seeks to Allow Companies to Offer Benefits to Independent Contractors: April...

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Last month, the most significant legal development in the area of independent contractor (IC) compliance and misclassification was on Capitol Hill. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, a Senate Republican who chairs the Senate Health,...more

McDermott Will & Schulte

The DOL Has Issued New Proposed Independent Contractor Classification Rules: What Now?

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On October 11, 2022, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued its Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) seeking to undo the Trump administration’s 2021 independent contractor regulations and revert to the six-factor...more

Venable LLP

Employee or Independent Contractor: The Department of Labor Proposes a "New" Worker Classification Rule

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​​​​​​​On October 11, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (the DOL) announced a proposed rule to reestablish the pre-2021 analytic framework for assessing the classification of workers under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more

Rumberger | Kirk

Out with the New: Rescission of DOL 2021 Rule Could Make Independent Contractors Full-Time Employees

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A newly proposed federal regulation could flip the script for employers across the country that utilize independent contractors in day-to-day business. A proposed rule by the Department of Labor Wage and Hour Division was...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

What’s Old is New Again: The DOL’s “New” Proposed Rule on Independent Contractors Returns to a Pre-Trump Test for Worker...

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On October 11, the Department of Labor (DOL) announced a proposed rule that would replace the Trump administration’s worker classification test, and may make it more difficult to classify workers as independent contractors. ...more

McAfee & Taft

Rewind, revise and clarify: DOL takes aim at independent contractor regs

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This week, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a revised proposed regulation that provides guidance on whether workers are properly classified as independent contractors (who are not covered by the Fair Labor Standards...more

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DOL Releases Proposed Regulation on Independent Contracting

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On September 22, 2020, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) released a long-anticipated proposed rule addressing when a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA)....more

Epstein Becker & Green

U.S. Department of Labor Offers New Insight on the Misclassification of Independent Contractors

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As federal, state, and local governments have focused in recent years on what they have termed “wage theft,” the classification of workers as independent contractors has been the subject of agency audits and litigation...more

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