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Snakes! And Other Things to Watch for in 2024, Contingent Workforce Edition

BakerHostetler on 1/3/2024

When playing professional sports in Australia, you’d better watch out for snakes. A venomous red-bellied black snake was spotted on the field at an Australian Football League Women’s match earlier this year, causing an...more

Wigging Out: The NLRB Overturns Another Trump-Era Test and Returns to a Stricter Independent Contractor Standard

Venable LLP on 6/19/2023

On Tuesday, June 13, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB or the “Board”) issued a decision that effectively increases the number of workers who are considered employees rather than independent contractors under the...more

Atlanta Opera: The NLRB Faces the Independent Contractor Music Once More

Butler Snow LLP on 6/19/2023

On June 13, 2023, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) released a decision, referred to as Atlanta Opera Inc. (372 NLRB No. 95), that marks a shift in the applicable test for whether a worker qualifies as an independent...more

How the Law Is Grappling With Free Expression, COVID-19, Diversity, and More

Ward and Smith, P.A. on 8/11/2021

Between COVID-19, last year’s demonstrations for racial justice, and a new president, there are many legal issues employers may need to consider — or reconsider. A quartet of Ward and Smith attorneys highlighted some...more

PRO Act: Congress Considers Fundamental Changes To Federal Labor Law

Fox Rothschild LLP on 4/21/2021

Congress may be on the cusp of passing legislation that would transform labor law in dramatic ways. This proposed law has potentially dire consequences for private-sector employers nationwide. The Protecting the Right to...more

AB 5 Contractor-Classification Battles Set to Heat Up in 2021

McDermott Will & Emery on 3/4/2021

Employers grappling with independent-contractor classification had a busy 2020—and should expect a flurry of additional activity this year. Few areas in employment law are changing as rapidly. Last year, many concerned about...more

Back From The Dead – Protecting The Right To Organize Act Reintroduced In The House

Vinson & Elkins LLP on 2/19/2021

On February 4, 2021, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act (the “PRO Act”) was reintroduced by Democrats in the United States House of Representatives. If enacted, the PRO Act would dramatically transform American labor...more

PRO Act Would Upend U.S. Labor Laws for Non-Union and Unionized Employers Alike

Littler on 2/10/2021

On February 4, 2021, House and Senate Democrats introduced the Protecting the Right to Organize (PRO) Act. Introduction was expected, as President Biden pledged to be “the strongest labor president you have ever had” during...more

A Decade In Review: Workplace Law In The 2010’s

Fisher Phillips on 1/2/2020

When the calendar turned to January 1, we not only saw the dawn of a new year but the beginning of a new decade. It’s natural, at such a turning point, to spend some time looking back on what has transpired in the past 10...more

NJ DOL Bills Uber $650M for Misclassified Drivers

Ballard Spahr LLP on 11/20/2019

The New Jersey Department of Labor (NJ DOL) billed Uber Technologies, Inc. and a subsidiary $650 million for past-due taxes, interest, and penalties due to an alleged misclassification of its drivers as independent...more

The More Things Change, the More They Remain the Same: Worker Classification in the Gig Economy - Labor & Employment Newsletter

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 10/22/2019

What Is the “Gig Economy”? The “gig economy” is the catchall term for an ever-growing range of temporary, flexible, autonomous work arrangements that are often enabled by technology platforms, such as websites or apps that...more

Three Big Moves From the NLRB

Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP on 9/27/2019

The top three stories in National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) news in recent weeks include (1) a decision holding that the misclassification of workers does not constitute an independent violation of the National Labor...more

Texas Rule on “Gig Workers” Takes Effect

Epstein Becker & Green on 7/22/2019

The Texas Workforce Commission (“TWC”), the agency responsible for administering unemployment benefits and assessing unemployment taxes, recently adopted a rule (“Rule”) pursuant to which certain workers who provide services...more

Web Exclusive: May 2019: The Top 17 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 6/19/2019

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

Recent Developments in the Battle of Independent Contractors vs. Employees

Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP on 6/19/2019

We’ve posted on this topic several times before but the battle between independent contractors and employees continues. Here’s a brief refresher on the basics of why proper classification of employees as independent...more

Entrepreneurial Opportunity and Control - Two Sides of the Same Coin?

Foley & Lardner LLP on 6/11/2019

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has once again weighed in on the proverbial employee-independent contractor issue, this time by way of its General Counsel. On April 16, 2019, the General Counsel’s office issued an...more

Good Step For Gig Companies: Advice Memo From NLRB’s General Counsel Concludes That Uber Drivers Are Contractors

Fisher Phillips on 5/15/2019

It’s been a roller coaster two weeks for gig economy companies. On April 29, the U.S. Department of Labor handed gig economy companies a nice outcome by issuing an opinion letter confirming that typical gig workers are,...more

Companies using independent contractors score big following NLRB ruling

Bricker Graydon LLP on 2/14/2019

In a ruling with significance for companies using independent contractors, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) returned to its long-standing traditional common law test (see SuperShuttle DFW, Inc.)....more

Another Reset Of NLRB’s Independent Contractor Test

Troutman Pepper on 2/14/2019

On Jan. 25, 2019, the Republican-led National Labor Relations Board affirmed the acting regional director’s decision that drivers of a shared airport ride service were independent contractors, not employees, and therefore not...more

January 2019 Independent Contractor Misclassification and Compliance News Update

Locke Lord LLP on 2/5/2019

This past month may well be regarded as one of the more legally satisfying for businesses using independent contractors. Courts issued three decisions in favor of companies on the issue as to whether certain workers are ICs...more

Back to the Future (Again): NLRB Returns to Traditional Independent Contractor Test

Polsinelli on 1/31/2019

On January 25, 2019, the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB” or “Board”) in SuperShuttle DFW, Inc. (367 NLRB No. 75), overruled the Obama-era 2014 FedEx Home Delivery (361 NLRB 610) decision and returned to its traditional...more

Make a U-Turn Now: NLRB Re-Writes Independent Contractor Test

Ballard Spahr LLP on 1/29/2019

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) overturned yet another Obama-era precedent—the 2014 FedEx Home Delivery decision, which had severely limited the definition of an independent contractor under the National Labor...more

Web Exclusive - April 2018: The Top 19 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 5/15/2018

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there were an unprecedented number of changes all through 2017. And if the first four months...more

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