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DOL Easing Up on Independent Contractor Misclassification Enforcement: 3 Key Points on This Big Win for Businesses

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Businesses that rely on freelancers or the “gig economy” have cause for optimism now that the Department of Labor just announced it will no longer enforce a Biden-era final rule that made it harder to classify workers as...more

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The Top 14 Workplace Law Stories from January 2022

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It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

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Biden DOL Shreds Trump-Era Gig Economy Guidance Letter

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The new administration’s efforts to reverse course on many of the gains that gig economy businesses achieved under previous White House leadership took another step friday as the Department of Labor (DOL) withdrew a guidance...more

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Gig Economy Rule Faces Very Uncertain Future

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If it had been released at some other point in time and under different circumstances, perhaps gig economy businesses would be celebrating the release of a federal rule that makes it easier to classify workers as independent...more

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