U.S. DOL Final Rule on Independent Contractors

U.S. Department of Labor Issues Final Rule on Independent ...

The DOL's final rule is a return to a “totality-of-the-circumstances” analysis where no one factor is dispositive. This contrasts with the 2021 ...

U.S. Department of Labor Announces New Final Rule on ...

Misclassifying employees as independent contractors can result in significant liabilities for employers, including payment of back wages to ...

Department of Labor Issues Final Rule on Independent Contractor ...

The US Department of Labor issued its final rule, attempting to define employee versus independent contractor status under the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA).

Independent Contractor Status Under the Fair Labor Standards Act

For example, the final rule explains that independent contractors are workers who, as a matter of economic reality, are in business for ...

DOL Issues Independent Contractor Final Rule - SHRM

The final rule rescinds a 2021 rule in which two core factors—control over the work and opportunity for profit or loss—carried greater weight in ...

DOL Issues Final Independent Contractor Rule

With an effective date of March 11, 2024, the Department of Labor (DOL) issued its long-awaited final rule addressing independent contractor classification.

DOL Publishes Final Independent Contractor Rule (US)

The final rule goes into effect on March 11, 2024, but is already facing at least two legal challenges in federal courts. Just two days after ...

U.S. Department of Labor Issues New Final Rule for Classifying ...

U.S. Department of Labor Issues New Final Rule for Classifying Independent Contractors, Effective March 11, 2024 ... The DOL's new rule assigns ...

Legal expert explains DOL's new Worker Classification Rule

Sekel explained that several comments on the 2021 rule said it made it much easier to designate workers as independent contractors rather than ...

US Department of Labor Publishes Its Independent Contractor Final ...

The Final Rule provides that, to suggest independent contractor status, the worker's investment must be capital or entrepreneurial in nature.

US DOL Issues Final Rule on Independent Contractors - Franczek P.C.

US DOL Issues Final Rule on Independent Contractors ... On January 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor announced a new final rule revising the ...

US DOL Restores Obama-Era Independent Contractor Standard

The U.S. Department of Labor released a final rule Jan. 10 rescinding the 2021 independent contractor standard and reverting to previous interpretations of ...

U.S. DOL Announces New Independent Contractor Rule Under FLSA

Executive Summary: On January 9, 2024, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) announced a final rule that revises the DOL's ...

DOL Announces Final Rule Regarding Independent Contractors

Confusion over which workers actually qualify as employees was in part addressed back in June 2023, when the U.S. Nation Labor Relations Board ...

Independent Contractor Rule Takes Effect, But Legal Challenges ...

The final rule, published in the Federal Register on Jan. 10, 2024, formally rescinds the regulation issued by the DOL in 2021 and adopts ...

The 2023 U.S. DOL Independent Contractor Rule: What's New?

Earlier this year, the U.S. Department of Labor published a final rule that sheds new light on how it will decide whether workers are ...

The Department of Labor Issues New Final Rule for Independent ...

The new final rule goes into effect on March 11, 2024. The Final Rule. The final rule, which applies to workers in any industry, sets forth six ...

Navigating the DOL Independent Contractor Final Rule 2024

For decades, the DOL and courts have agreed that whether someone should be given employee or independent contractor status under the FLSA comes ...

US Department of Labor Publishes Final Rule on Determining ...

The US Department of Labor (DOL) recently published a highly anticipated final rule (2024 Rule) on defining an independent contractor under the Fair Labor ...

A Guide to the DOL's Independent Contractor 2024 Final Rule

The rule clearly states that no single factor or group of factors is assigned a predetermined weight. It also allows for consideration of other ...