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Companies will need to tread carefully on who they call independent contractors and who they identify as employees. Companies will potentially have a harder time classifying millions of workers as ...

Most businesses have a mix of employees — those with full benefits and protections — and independent contractors that make up their workforce. But a new law may mean employers now have more employees ...

What the federal government considers an independent contractor vs. an employee is once again changing based on the change in administration. The U.S. Department of Labor is reviewing a 2024 ...

DOL Secretary Chavez DeRemer participated in ATA's Mid-Year Management Session keynote shortly after DOL shunned the 2024 independent contractor rule. The Department of Labor will no longer use the ...

The rule is expected to make it harder for workers to be classified as independent contractors, an issue for some financial advisers who would prefer to keep the designation. The Department of Labor ...

Fourteen financial services industry trade groups are taking their fight directly to Congress in their effort to derail a provision in the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act to reclassify ...

Only employees (not independent contractors) are covered under the FLSA’s regulations on minimum wages, overtime and record-keeping. So, in order to comply with federal labor laws, employers need to ...

Oral arguments in Frisard’s Transportation LLC v. United States DOL were scheduled to begin early this month, but under the new administration, the Department of Labor secured a postponement. It is ...