The Department of Labor is once again changing how it defines independent contractors: For issues around the Fair Labor Standards Act, DOL said it will no longer use the Biden-era 2024 ...

The Labor Department is reviewing the Biden administration’s 2024 worker classification guidance, which directs employers on how to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent ...

Groups such as the Independent Women’s Forum have asked the Trump administration to repeal a Biden-era DOL independent contractor rule within his first 100 days in office. If this rule is not ...

SINGAPORE: A soon-to-be-graduate took to social media on Thursday (March 6) to ask Singaporeans with more experience in the workforce for advice on how to properly back out of a job offer.

The DOL's independent contractor rule affects a key demographic of truckers and has impacts far beyond FLSA. Here's how it is impacting trucking. The trucking industry has strong opinions about ...

For the first time, the FWC will be able to intervene regarding terms of engagement between principals and independent contractors. A new unfair contract regime has been introduced in Part 3A-5 of the ...

Independent Contractor Classification Engaging independent contractors has many benefits for companies, but misclassifying these employees can pose significant financial risk. Companies and their ...

The Department of Labor acknowledges in its 339-page rule published Jan. 10 that most of the public comments made by independent contractors expressed opposition to the rule, “criticizing the ...

The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) on Jan. 9 announced a final rule on how it classifies workers as employees or independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA). It’s the latest in ...

“It is unfortunate that the U.S. Department of Labor is replacing the commonsense 2021 final rule with an ambiguous and difficult-to-interpret standard for determining independent contractor status.

The Labor Department’s new independent contractor rule goes into effect on March 11, but it’s already causing a stir. The House Committee on Small Business on Thursday raised concerns over the ...