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 ...
On 26 February 2026, the US Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) that would again modify the framework to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent ...
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 ...
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 ...
Misclassifying a worker as an independent contractor is one of the key reasons employers fail to pay overtime. In first three weeks of February, the DOL hit 24 employers for overtime violations ...
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 ...