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Senate Republicans Introduce Legislation to Empower Independent Workers - Earlier this week, Senators Bill Cassidy, (R-LA), chair of the Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pensions (HELP) Committee, and Senators Rand Paul...more
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
This week President Donald Trump nominated attorney Jonathan Berry to be the next solicitor of the Department of Labor (DOL). Berry worked in the department during the first Trump administration, and he was the sole author of...more
Richard Reibstein, a partner with Troutman Pepper Locke, was quoted in the February 3, 2025 FreightWaves article, “Trucking-Backed Suit May Be Arena for Dumping Biden Independent Contractor Rule.”...more
On January 14, 2025, President-elect Trump named former U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) Commissioner Keith Sonderling as his pick for deputy secretary of the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL). This is a...more
Now that we know Donald Trump will return to the White House as President, it’s time for employers to take a look at what they might expect during his second term in office. We have gathered insights from some of our firm’s...more
This post is a summary of a more detailed Client Alert prepared by Gray Reed’s labor and employment practice group. Recall our recent post on the Department of Labor’s new “Economic Realities Test” for classifying...more
Introduction - After receiving over 55,000 comments regarding the proposed rule introduced in 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) finalized a new independent contractor test under the Fair Labor Standards Act...more
On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (“Department”) published a final rule (“Final Rule”) for determining independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). The Final Rule rescinds the...more
The Department of Labor recently made key changes to its rules in a way that will affect the oil and gas sector. The new rule rescinds a Trump Administration rule that had simplified the process of classifying workers as...more
Fulfilling a campaign promise for President Joe Biden, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) sent employers New Year’s greetings by opening 2024 with a new final rule on independent contractor classifications, revising...more
On January 9, 2024, the United States Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division (WHD) announced a final rule regarding how to determine whether a worker qualifies as an employee or may be considered an independent...more
The U.S. Department of Labor (the “DOL”) recently issued a final rule (the "2024 Rule") which reverts the independent contractor analysis back to a multifactor, totality-of-the-circumstances review that, as compared to the...more
The Department of Labor’s final rule for classifying independent contractors replaces the previous Trump-era rule that emphasized two factors – control over the work performed and the worker’s opportunity for profit or loss –...more
The Department of Labor (DOL) has issued its highly anticipated final rule addressing the classification of workers as independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). This new rule, which takes effect on...more
On Tuesday January 9, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) published its final rule setting forth how worker classification (i.e., whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor) will be determined by the agency...more
On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor ("DOL") issued a final rule to provide guidance to employers in determining whether a worker should be classified as an employee or an independent contractor under the Fair...more
On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor published a final rule (the Rule) replacing the current test for determining whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act. ...more
The Department of Labor has long labored to rein in the practice by some employers of labeling workers as independent contractors instead of employees to avoid the requirements under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) to pay...more
Recently, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) issued a new rule redefining how workers are classified under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The final rule, which will make it more challenging to classify workers as...more
On January 2, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a hotly anticipated final rule, which establishes a six-factor test for determining whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor for purposes of...more
On January 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) published its final rule defining the term “independent contractor” and setting forth the new test for determining independent contractor / employee status (the...more
On January 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division announced a final rule that revises the DOL’s interpretation of worker classification (employees versus independent contractors) under the Fair Labor...more
On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (“Department”) changed the test as to whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor Standards Act (“FLSA”). This final rule rescinds the...more
This week, the Department of Labor (“DOL”) released a final rule that changes the criteria for classifying independent contractors under federal law. We first wrote about the rule change back in October 2022 when the rule was...more