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.

The U.S. Department of Labor released a proposed rule to revise how it defines independent contractors under the Fair Labor Standards Act, with a potentially problematic change that will affect ...

The Department of Labor will publish on Thursday its final rule clarifying the definition of independent contractor as it relates to the Fair Labor Standards Act, despite the Biden administration ...

Labor interests continue to try to define independent contractors, such as this one for FedEx Ground, as employees. A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a new, more business-friendly definition of ...

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, ...

The Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division is proposing to better define independent contractor in the context of the Fair Labor Standards Act. That law has long governed employer wage and hour ...

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 decision titled The Atlanta Opera, Inc. and issued by the National Labor Relations Board (“NLRB”) on Tuesday, June 13, 2023 (the “Decision”), the NLRB made it more difficult for employers to ...