The U.S. Department of Labor announced it will move to rescind the Biden administration's 2024 independent contractor rule on ...

The Labor Department wants to tear up its own independent contractor rule and start over – and HR teams should pay close attention. On February 27, 2026, the Department of Labor published a proposed ...

On 26 February 2026, the US Department of Labor (DOL) published a proposed rule (Proposed Rule) that would again modify the framework to determine whether a worker is an employee or independent ...

As the Department of Labor’s (DOL) composition ebbs and flows from administration to administration, so does the guidance employers receive on one of the most challenging questions in workforce ...

Department of Labor releases proposed rule using economic reality test to help employers determine worker classification ...

An independent contractor is someone who works for a business or company but is not an employee. The IRS uses three categories of evidence to determine if someone is an independent contractor or ...

In a recent development, the U.S. Department of Labor confirmed it will stop enforcing the Biden-era rule on independent contractor classification. This reversal represents a meaningful victory for ...

Reversal to an independent contractor rule with two core factors rather than 2024’s change to six factors with none greater ...

A proposed independent contractor rule from the Department of Labor returns to a Trump-era standard. The Department of Labor ...

The trucking industry has strong opinions about regulators’ independent contractor classification rules. But how important are these rules? The classification concerns a regulation that has little ...

The 2024 final rule creates an ambiguous and difficult-to-interpret standard for determining independent contractor status." ...