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DOL Withdraws Guidance on Independent Contractors and Joint Employers: What It Means and What Employers Should Do Now

Seyfarth Synopsis: United States Secretary of Labor Alexander Acosta recently withdrew the federal Wage & Hour Division’s (WHD) Obama-era guidance documents on independent contractors and joint employment. Those documents,...more

6/21/2017 / Administrative Interpretation , Department of Labor (DOL) , Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) , Independent Contractors , Joint Employers , Misclassification , NLRA , NLRB , Staffing Agencies , Wage and Hour

Another Year, Another All-Time High for Wage and Hour Litigation

Wage and hour litigation continues to soar to record highs. So says the federal judiciary’s most recent data on cases filed in federal court over the last federal fiscal year. After hitting an all-time high of 8,160 in FY14,...more

11/23/2015 / Employer Liability Issues , Misclassification , Wage and Hour , White-Collar Exemptions

DOL Issues Guidance On Independent Contractor Classification Interpreting FLSA Broadly to Cover Most Workers as Employees

Today, the U.S. Department of Labor’s Wage and Hour Division (WHD) issued its first Administrator’s Interpretation (AI) on the Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) in more than a year. As the Administrator, Dr. David Weil, had...more

7/16/2015 / Department of Labor (DOL) , Economic Realities Test , Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) , Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA) , Independent Contractors , Misclassification , Wage and Hour

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