April 13, 2022
Two key Republicans on the House Education and Labor Committee asked the U.S. Department of Labor to reinstate two Trump-era opinion letters defining independent contractor parameters, arguing the Biden administration inappropriately withdrew them in an act of "open hostility to workers."
March 15, 2022
A Texas federal judge's ruling this week that reinstated the Trump administration's independent contractor rule is unlikely to be the last word on the standards used for classifying workers, attorneys told Law360.
March 15, 2022
The U.S. Department of Labor didn't properly follow administrative procedure requirements when it delayed and withdrew a Trump-era rule determining workers' independent contractor status, a Texas federal judge ruled, saying the rule has been in effect since last year.
August 31, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor followed administrative procedure requirements for delaying and then withdrawing a Trump-era rule that established an independent contractor status test, the government said in a bid for an early win in Texas federal court against a challenge by trade associations.
August 03, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor unlawfully delayed and withdrew a Trump-era rule establishing a test for determining independent contractor status, trade associations argued in a bid for an early win in Texas federal court, saying the government hadn't sufficiently justified nixing the rule.
May 05, 2021
The U.S. Department of Labor on Wednesday put the final nail in the coffin of a Trump-era rule for determining whether to classify workers as employees who are entitled to the Fair Labor Standards Act's wage protections or independent contractors who are not.
April 07, 2021
A group of business associations is hoping to make the case that the U.S. Department of Labor's Trump-era independent contractor rule has been effective for weeks because the Biden administration's hasty reversal is fatally flawed. Here, Law360 looks at the group's challenge and the rule's journey so far.
March 26, 2021
A pair of business lobbying groups sued the U.S. Department of Labor in Texas federal court Friday, alleging the agency acted illegally when it moved to delay the effective date of a Trump-era rule for determining whether businesses can classify workers as independent contractors.