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worker classification
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Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
DOL Issues Guidance On Independent Contractor Classification Interpreting FLSA Broadly to Cover Most Workers as Employees
By Michael Fucci, Seyfarth Shaw LLP
Co-authored by Richard Alfred, Alex Passantino, Patrick Bannon, and Adam Smiley Today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued its first Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) on the…
Connecticut Employment Law Blog
No Vacation for Employment Law: New “Interpretation” for Independent Contractors Issued by USDOL
[caption id="attachment_5852" align="alignright" width="300"] Time to find your happy place.[/caption] Whatever happened to summer vacation? You remember, that downtime, when nothing much happened? First, there were new proposed OT rules.…
Texas Employment Law Update
DOL Issues Administrator Interpretation on Misclassification of Independent Contrators
I've written several times on the topic of employee v. independent contractor misclassification (here, here, here, here, here, here). Yesterday, the DOL issued an Administrator's Interpretation attempting to provide additional guidance,…
Independent Contractor Misclassification & Compliance
Misclassification of Independent Contractors: The Crackdown, Its Costs, and How to Minimize or Avoid Its Risks
By Richard Reibstein Esq. of Littler Mendelson P.C.
This article was published as a comprehensive three-part series in the Employment and Class Action sections of Law360 on July 7–9, 2015 as "The Costs of Worker Misclassification." © Copyright…
Minnesota Employer
California Labor Commissioner Holds That Uber Drivers Are Employees, Not Independent Contractors
A recent decision by the California Labor Commissioner’s Office has held that drivers for Uber, the popular online ride-hailing service, are employees of the company rather than independent contractors. In…
Employment Law Worldview
Fifth Circuit Slams Department of Labor For Botched Investigation and Bad Faith Litigation Tactics
Court Orders DOL to Pay Employer's Attorneys' Fees in Agency's Bungled Misclassification Prosecution Nearly 239 years after the Continental Congress declared a set of self-evident truths paving the way for…
Wage & Hour Litigation Blog
Agents Can’t Insure Class Treatment – Varied Experiences Require Decertification
Authored by Kara Goodwin Last week, a federal district court decertified a Rule 23 class of more than 1,000 insurance agents who claimed that Bankers Life and Casualty Co. misclassified…
New Jersey Law Blog
The Uber Ruling and the Issue of Employee Misclassification
Uber - the transportation networking company which, through the use of its technological platform and smart phone application, connects consumers (passengers) with transportation providers (private vehicle drivers) and facilitates the…
Franchise Law Update
Worker Classification Comes Under DOL’s Scrutiny
[caption id="attachment_1857" align="alignleft" width="211"] Copyright: tiero / 123RF Stock Photo[/caption] While the debate rages over the fallout from the Obama Administration's decision to revise overtime rules for the first time…
Southwest Florida Business and IP Blog
Yikes…Uber Drivers are Employees, Not Independent Contractors?
Ronald Reagan famously once said: "The nine most terrifying words in the English language are 'I'm from the government and I’m here to help.'" On January 13, 2015, the State…