A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a new, more business-friendly definition of independent contractor published in the final days of the Trump administration must be reinstated, because the Biden ...

A federal class-action lawsuit brought by 5,000 so-called independent contractors could deliver wholesale changes to employee-benefit guidelines. Filed in the Western District of New York, the suit ...

Effective Jan. 1, New Hampshire began implementing a new definition of employee, which dramatically changes the criteria upon which a worker may be deemed an independent contractor in New Hampshire.

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 ...

In a widely expected move, the U.S. Department of Labor has proposed to withdraw a rule published in the last days of the Trump administration that changed the definition of independent contractor.

Paul Sighinolfi, executive director of Maine’s Workers’ Compensation Board, figures he’s been making three or four presentations a week on the rubber-chicken circuit during the last month or so, ...

Independent contractors have more personal freedom and more control over their work, but more responsibility, too. Independent contractors, those mysterious workers who seem to have all the freedom in ...

The House Labor Committee has apparently found the holy grail – a single definition of an employee, or rather, when an individual is not an employee, but an independent contractor. It has recommended ...