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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Who Is an Independent Contractor? "Independent contractor" is a category of worker that is legally distinct from an employee. The distinction between the two is one of substance, not title or a ...

This section applies to individual independent contractors who wish to file for reimbursement of their travel expenses through UAB's accountable plan for independent contractors. All other independent ...

People who work for themselves or who own their own company are sometimes alternately referred to as self-employed or independent contractors, though there is a difference between the two. In general, ...