As the Department of Labor’s (DOL) composition ebbs and flows from administration to administration, so does the guidance employers receive on one of the most challenging questions in workforce ...
The Labor Department wants to tear up its own independent contractor rule and start over – and HR teams should pay close attention. On February 27, 2026, the Department of Labor published a proposed ...
Wage and Hour Division proposed a new rule to determine whether workers are independent contractors or employees under federal wage-and-hour laws. The new rule proposes to rescind the 2024 Biden-era ...
The U.S. Department of Labor announced it will move to rescind the Biden administration's 2024 independent contractor rule on ...
The Department of Labor announced a new test for determining independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). The test describes specific facts that may result in a ...
The FLSA’s independent contractor regulations, as with so many of the federal laws under DOL’s enforcement purview, have been subject to a veritable table tennis match between presidential ...
The Biden administration and organized labor say a newly proposed rule reframing how employers determine whether a worker is an employee or an independent contractor should create more consistency for ...
A Department of Labor rule adopted under the Biden administration had many brokers worried about their ability to work as ...
It's now a rule of the road, so to speak -- the Department of Labor's six-factor independent contractor test for contractor/employee determinations under the Fair Labor Standards Act went into effect ...