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Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Employment Flash - March 2024

In this issue of Employment Flash: the new DOL rule on independent contractors, SCOTUS’s unanimous Sarbanes-Oxley whistleblower ruling, plus labor law developments in California, Delaware, D.C., New York, the EU, Germany and...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

The Department of Labor Issues New Final Rule for Independent Contractor Classification

On January 10, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor (“DOL”) published its final rule that revises its guidance regarding the standard for assessing whether a worker is an employee or independent contractor under the Fair Labor...more

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US DOL Announces Final Rule on Classification of Workers as Employees or Independent Contractors under FLSA

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Key Takeaways - -The Department of Labor recently clarified a critical distinction between an employee and an independent contractor. -The courts will no longer use the Trump-era rule that focused on two core factors:...more

Harris Beach PLLC

Challenges Expected to Labor Rule Addressing Contractor/Employee Classification

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The U.S. Department of Labor has officially adopted a rule that makes it more difficult for employers to classify workers as independent contractors, a change that could have profound effect on many industries, including...more

Brownstein Hyatt Farber Schreck

Reality Check: U.S. Department of Labor Finalizes Worker Classification Rule

On Jan. 9, 2024, the U.S. Department of Labor’s (DOL) Wage and Hour Division announced its final rule on Employee or Independent Contractor Classification. The announcement marks the end of a rulemaking process that started...more

Fenwick & West LLP

Startup Guide to Hiring and Terminations: Worker Classification

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Hiring workers is an important step for startups. Startups engage two main types of workers—employees and independent contractors. It can be difficult to determine the proper classification of a worker, especially since both...more

DarrowEverett LLP

The Show Must Go On: Entertainer-Employee Classification Takes Center Stage for Venues

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It’s spring 2023, live entertainment is back, and perhaps so is the Internal Revenue Service (“IRS”). The Inflation Reduction Act, signed into law on August 16, 2022, authorizes $80 billion in funding for the IRS over the...more

Keating Muething & Klekamp PLL

Independent Contractor Classification - Deadline to Submit Comments on the Notice of Proposed Rulemaking is Approaching

On October 13, 2022, the U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) published a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) to modify Wage and Hour Division regulations to revise its analysis for determining employee or independent contractor...more

Sheppard Mullin Richter & Hampton LLP

NLRB to Decide Whether Misclassification Is Standalone Violation of the NLRA

The National Labor Relations Board (Board or NLRB) could reverse a 2019 decision holding that honest, albeit mistaken, classification decisions and announcements to employees do not violate the National Labor Relations Act...more

Foley & Lardner LLP

US Department of Labor to Hire 100 New Investigators in the Wage and Hour Division, Signaling Increased Focus on Enforcement

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The U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) recently announced its intention to hire 100 new investigators in its Wage and Hour Division. Currently at is lowest staffing levels in over a decade, the division oversees the enforcement...more

White & Case LLP

Four key antitrust events in Q4 2021 target labor markets and aim to protect workers: Here's what you need to know

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The focus on using the antitrust laws to target labor markets has been gaining momentum for years, but the close of 2021 saw the trend hit overdrive with antitrust attacks on perceived harm to workers coming from all corners...more

Foley Hoag LLP

Biden Administration Rescinds Trump-Era Rule on Independent Contractors

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On May 5, 2021, the United States Department of Labor (DOL) issued a final rule rescinding a 2020 rule promulgated by the Trump administration that made it easier for workers to be classified as independent contractors rather...more

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Are You Paying Attention to your Classifications?

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DOL Scraps Trump-era Interpretative Letters and 60,000 U.K. Uber Drivers Entitled to Worker Benefits - It has been a big day for changes on the worker classification front. In the last 24 hours, Britain’s highest court...more

Constangy, Brooks, Smith & Prophete, LLP

NC “Employee Classification” Law Warrants Caution But Doesn’t Change Substantive Law

On August 11, Gov. Roy Cooper signed into law the North Carolina Employee Fair Classification Act. The portion of the legislation that deals with worker classifications will take effect December 31....more

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP

Employment Law - August 2015

California Sick Leave Law Gets Updates - Why it matters: California's Healthy Workplaces, Healthy Families Act just took effect on July 1 but Governor Jerry Brown has already signed into law tweaks to the statute....more

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That is SO last week - July 2015 #3

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There’s just no rest for employment lawyers this summer. We had another exciting week. The biggest news was the EEOC’s ruling that Title VII prohibits discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation. The agency found that...more

Greenberg Glusker LLP

Client Alert - Interns & Independent Contractors

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Second Circuit Reverses Class Certification Ruling in Fox Searchlight Unpaid Intern Case, Directing Trial Court to View Economic Benefit Factors Through New Lens - A federal appellate court in New York handed an apparent...more

Proskauer - Law and the Workplace

US Department of Labor Issues Administrator’s Interpretation Aimed At Limiting Independent Contractor Classification

As forecast in our June 12, 2015 blog post David Weil, Administrator of the Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) has released Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) No. 2015-1, entitled “The Application of the Fair...more

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U.S. Department of Labor Issues Administrator’s Interpretation on Independent Contractors

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As promised earlier this summer, on July 15, 2015, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued an “Administrator’s Interpretation” (AI) regarding when individuals are misclassified as independent...more

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DOL Releases Guidance Indicating That Independent Contractor Classification is Restricted to a Narrow Class of Workers

The DOL is at it again. First it was the highly-anticipated release of the proposed overtime rules a few weeks ago, and now the Department’s Wage and Hour Division has issued an “Administrator’s Interpretation” – its first...more

Ervin Cohen & Jessup LLP

Uber Relieved or Uber Mad? What Does the Recent UBER Misclassification Ruling Mean for Employers?

Last week, the California Labor Commissioner ruled that Uber driver Barbara Berwick was an employee and not an independent contractor, as Uber classifies all its drivers. The ruling was based on the Labor Commissioner’s...more

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