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DOL Enforcement Guidance Underscores Favorable Shift for Contractor Classifications

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On May 1, 2025, the United States Department of Labor (“DOL”) published the first Field Assistance Bulletin of the year providing guidance to Wage and Hour Division (“WHD”) field staff regarding the proper analysis to apply...more

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Gig Workers Now Protected in Columbus, Ohio

The City of Columbus, Ohio, has enacted a new code conferring legal rights to gig workers, also known generally as freelance workers. Freelance workers now constitute almost forty percent of the national workforce. The...more

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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

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DOL Fires Across the Bow of Businesses Underway With Independent Contractor Manpower

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Employee classification issues have been a recurrent topic of ours, and with all the class action litigation arising from independent contractor and other classifications, we have had no shortage of opportunities to remind...more

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