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, ...

A federal judge in Texas has ruled that a new, more business-friendly definition of independent contractor published in the final days of the Trump administration must be reinstated, because the Biden ...

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 ...

A federal class-action lawsuit brought by 5,000 so-called independent contractors could deliver wholesale changes to employee-benefit guidelines. Filed in the Western District of New York, the suit ...

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 ...

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.

Have y’all gotten sick of election news yet? He said, she said, he said … back and forth day after day. It is enough to drive you crazy if you watch the news all the time. Thankfully, I most often ...

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 ...

Independent contractors have more personal freedom and more control over their work, but more responsibility, too. Independent contractors, those mysterious workers who seem to have all the freedom in ...

The final version of the 2026 National Defense Authorization Act that went to the White House this week for President Trump’s signature does not include provisions that would expand the definition of ...