In an effort to improve workers’ rights, the Department of Labor announced Thursday that it has formally removed a Trump-era rule that narrowed definition of a joint employer. The rule, which went ...

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 on Tuesday published a proposed rule defining who’s an “independent contractor.” Part of what’s notable about this proposed rule is simply that we’re doing it. In the more than ...

The U.S. Labor Department on Wednesday rescinded a policy that would have made it easier to classify workers as independent contractors. The old "Independent Contractor Rule" was posted in the last ...

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

Cambridge Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 3 (May 2016), pp. 913-939 (27 pages) This article distinguishes between two types of division of labour discussed by Smith. The ...

In a widely expected move, the U.S. Department of Labor has proposed to withdraw a rule published in the last days of the Trump administration that changed the definition of independent contractor.