No Rest for the Weary: The Trump DOL Indicates Yet Another Change to Its Independent Contractor Classification Rule Is on the Horizon
By EsqSocial Corporation 01/04/25
Exactly a year ago, we wrote about the final rule issued by the Biden-era U.S. Department of Labor (DOL) regarding the test for determining whether a worker is an employee covered by the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA), or an independent contractor exempt from FLSA coverage. The final rule became effective on March 11, 2024 (the “2024 rule”) and replaced the DOL’s independent contractor test that was adopted in 2021 during the first Trump administration (the “2021 rule”), which made it made it...
By: Bradley Arant Boult Cummings LLP