For trucking companies that rely on owner-operators, the federal government may once again be shifting the ground rules. The U.S. Department of Labor has proposed rescinding its 2024 independent ...

Labor interests continue to try to define independent contractors, such as this one for FedEx Ground, as employees. A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a new, more business-friendly definition of ...

The Department of Labor on Thursday unveiled a proposed rule aimed at clarifying how businesses and workers determine whether a job qualifies someone as an independent contractor or an employee under ...

Have y’all gotten sick of election news yet? He said, she said, he said … back and forth day after day. It is enough to drive you crazy if you watch the news all the time. Thankfully, I most often ...

After publishing in early January a final rule to clarify the definition of independent contractor within the Fair Labor Standards Act, the Department of Labor is now proposing to withdraw the rule ...

A person hired to do work for another but who is not an employee or agent of that person. Control is subjected to the end result and not as to how the work is performed as opposed to an employee who ...

In a decision titled The Atlanta Opera, Inc. and issued by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 (the “Decision”), the NLRB made it more difficult for employers to ...